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Tabula rasa. Volume 1 / John McPhee.

by McPhee, John, 1931-

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

071.3092 M478t v.1

McPhee, John, 1931-

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

American essays -- 20th century.

9780374603601 (hc.)

viii, 180 p. ; 22 cm.

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. After seven years at Time, he moved to The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. A Fellow of the Geological Society of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 1999 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

"A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, dissident art in the Soviet Union, and an even wider variety of other subjects, he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design. In 'Tabula Rasa', McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, reflecting wryly upon projects he once planned to do but never got around to(...)"--From publisher.

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