John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American author. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books, including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists). In 2008, he received the George Polk Career Award for his “indelible mark on American journalism during his nearly half-century career”. Since 1974, McPhee has been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.
Books in order of publication:
A Sense of Where You Are – 1965
The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield – 1966
Oranges – 1967
The Pine Barrens – 1968
A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles- 1968
Levels of the Game – 1969
The Crofter and the Laird- 1970
Encounters with the Archdruid – 1971
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed – 1973
The Curve of Binding Energy – 1974
Pieces of the Frame – 1975
The Survival of the Bark Canoe – 1975
The John McPhee Reader – 1976
Coming into the Country – 1977
Giving Good Weight – 1979
Alaska: Images of the Country – 1981
Basin and Range – 1981
In Suspect Terrain – 1983
La Place de la Concorde Suisse – 1984
Table of Contents – 1985
Heirs of General Practice – 1986
In the Highlands and Islands – 1986
Rising from the Plains – 1986
Outcroppings – 1988
The Control of Nature – 1989
Looking for a Ship – 1990
Assembling California – 1993
The Ransom of Russian Art – 1994
The Second John McPhee Reader – 1996
Irons in the Fire – 1997
Annals of the Former World – 1998
The Founding Fish – 2002
Uncommon Carriers – 2006
Silk Parachute – 2010
The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University – 2011
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process – 2017
The Patch – 2018
Tabula Rasa – 2023
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