description: The John McPhee Reader , first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are ; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said "is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit," who has been called "a master craftsman" so many times that it is pointless to number them.
language: English
title: The John McPhee Reader
titlecomplete: The John McPhee Reader
genres: Writing, Nature, Collections, Science, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Travel, Journalism, History
ratings_count: 705
series: John McPhee Reader
publisher: Macfarlane Walter & Ross