John McPhee

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1970
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • The Crofter and the Laird

  • A Sense of Where You Are

    The first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, tells about Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. In A Sense of W...

  • In Suspect Terrain

    From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others-- a biography; a set ...

  • Table of Contents

    First published in book form 1985, Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces written by John McPhee between 1981 and 1984. Geographically and thematically, they range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephon...

  • Rising from the Plains

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee continues his Annals of the Former World series about the geology of North America along the fortieth parallel with Rising from the Plains. This third volume presents another exciting geological excursion wit...

  • Coming into the Country

    Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with ...

  • Assembling California

    At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in h...

  • The Princeton Anthology of Writing

    In 1957--long before colleges awarded degrees in creative nonfiction and back when newspaper writing's reputation was tainted by the fish it wrapped--Princeton began honoring talented literary journalists. Since then, fifty-nine of the finest, mos...

  • Tabula Rasa: Volume 1

    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 Swis...



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John McPhee has published 9 books.

John McPhee does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tabula Rasa: Volume 1, was published in July 2023.

The first book by John McPhee, The Crofter and the Laird, was published in January 1970.

No. John McPhee does not write books in series.
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