biography
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McPhee, John (Angus)
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He studied at Princeton (1953 BA) and at Cambridge University, England (1953–4). He worked as a television playwright for Robert Montgomery Presents (1955–7) and as an associate editor for Time magazine (1957–64). In 1964 he became a staff writer for the New Yorker and also taught journalism at Princeton (1975). His non-fiction books, acclaimed for their cool precision, were usually based on articles written for the New Yorker and cover a wide variety of subjects, everything from oranges to ecology, from canoe makers to Alaska. In later years he pursued an interest in geology through a series of books beginning with Basin and Range (1981). |
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