John McPhee

John Angus McPhee ( born March 8, 1931 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American non-fiction author.

Life

John McPhee was born in 1931 in Princeton, New Jersey. He attended Princeton University and studied at the University of Cambridge. He worked for two years for television, before he began in 1957 to write for the Time. Since 1965 he is a staff writer at The New Yorker. In the same year he published his first of now around thirty books, A Sense of Where You Are. At Princeton University, he was until 1975 writing courses to its students included, for example, Richard Preston. For his books, he won several awards, the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for his book Annals of the Former World, he was awarded.

Awards

  • Nominated for the National Book Award in the Science for Encounter With the Archdruid 1972.
  • Nominated for the National Book Award in the Science for The Curve of Binding Energy in 1975.
  • Academy Award for writing the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977.
  • Woodrow Wilson Award 1982.
  • John Burroughs Medal for The Control of Nature 1990.
  • Pulitzer Prize in the category Non-Fiction for Annals of the Former World, 1999.

Works

  • The Watchful Peace Switzerland. ( La place de la Concorde Suisse) Benziger, Zurich, Cologne 1984. ISBN 3-545-34042-2
  • Cargo. ( Looking for a ship) Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-608-91300-9
  • Slugfest: the levels of the game. (Levels of the game ) Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1994. ISBN 3-608-91303-3
  • Oranges. (Orange ) Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995. ISBN 3-608-91301-7
  • Contraband: the art in the trunk or the Rescue of Russian contemporary art. (The Ransom of Russian Art ) Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1996. ISBN 3-608-91790- X
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