American writer John McPhee was born on this day, 8 March 1931 in Princeton, NJ. Mr. McPhee is a 1999 winner of Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his work Annals of the Former World as well as the George Polk Career Award. Books by John McPhee Mr. McPhee was born in Princeton, NJ. His father was Princeton University athletic department physician. Mr. McPhee went to Princeton High School and attended Princeton University. During his time as a student at Princeton University, Mr. McPhee traveled to New York City twice a week as the juvenile panelist on the radio quiz program Twenty Questions. Mr. McPhee had several roommates in Princeton, one of them was Dick Kazmaier – the 1951 Heisman Trophy winner. His writing career started at Time magazine and The New Yorker in 1965. Mr. McPhee still writes for those magazines today. Profiling Princeton University’s basketball legend (and later a senator from NJ) Bill Bradely resulted in A Sense of Where You Are which became a classic non-fiction book. To this day Mr. McPhee teaches nonfiction writing at Princeton (2 out of every 3 years). Some of Mr. McPhee’s students included David Remnick, Eric Schlosser, Richard Preston and Robert…