The American Scholar

NOTES AND OUTTAKES

t the age of 92, John McPhee would seem to have earned a rest. The author of more than 30 books, he has been writing for six decades for , where the reporting in many of those volumes first appeared. has been a staple in nonfiction writing classes ever since it was published in 1976. Born in Princeton, where his dad was a doctor for the university's jocks, he has lived in the town for most of his life, graduating from high school and college there. In 1975, he began a second career is anything but .

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