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.
- 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 Wright.
- Mr. McPhee has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize at least 4 times.
- Mr. McPhee is also a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University since 1974.
- Mr. McPhee holds honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Amherst College
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