John Angus McPhee (born 8 March 1931) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer widely considered one of the pioneers of narrative nonfiction.
Unlike Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, who helped kick-start the "new journalism" which remolded nonfiction in the 1960s, McPhee produced a gentler style of literary journalism by incorporating techniques from novels and other forms of fiction. McPhee avoided the attention-grabbing streams of consciousness of Wolf...
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John Angus McPhee (born 8 March 1931) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer widely considered one of the pioneers of narrative nonfiction.
Unlike Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, who helped kick-start the "new journalism" which remolded nonfiction in the 1960s, McPhee produced a gentler style of literary journalism by incorporating techniques from novels and other forms of fiction. McPhee avoided the attention-grabbing streams of consciousness of Wolfe and Thompson, but his detailed description of characters, insatiable appetite for details, and masterful style make his writing lively, readable, and personal, even when it focuses on obscure or difficult topics. He is highly regarded among fellow writers for the quality and quantity of his literary output.
McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of the Princeton University athletic department's physician, Dr. Harry McPhee. John was educated at Princeton High School, then spent a postgraduate year at Deerfield Academy, before...
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