The John McPhee Reader (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The John McPhee Reader Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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 writers: 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The John McPhee Reader Monday, July 27 2009.

• Added a contributor: John McPhee: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The John McPhee Reader Thursday, July 16 2009.

• McPhee first saw Bill Bradley on a basketball court in 1962, the winter of Bradley's freshman year at Princeton.