The Second John McPhee Reader

McPhee, John A.; McPhee, John; Remnick, David; Strachan, Patricia

ISBN 10: 0374256861 / ISBN 13: 9780374256869

Published by FSG, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Second John McPhee Reader
• Publisher: FSG
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374256861
• ISBN 13: 9780374256869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: White pages, firm binding
• Dust Jacket Condition: Moderate Dust Jacket Wear
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four books on geology that comprise Annals of the Former World.

About the Author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.