User:Mpaldridge/McPhee

Bibliography

Books

Original nonfiction

Title	Date	Publication Details	Notes
A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley	1965	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51485-2	A profile of Hall of Fame basketball player and Rhodes Scholar Bill Bradley.
The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield	1966	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-16860-1	Biography of Frank Boyden, long time headmaster of Deerfield Academy.
Oranges	1967	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-22688-1	The history and significance of the farming of oranges, how farmers have struggled with frost and how horticulturists have introduced new breeds of citrus.
The Pine Barrens	1968	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-23360-8	The story of the near wilderness central area of New Jersey, known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.
Levels of the Game	1969	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51526-3	Explores the relationship between two tennis players, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner, and their tennis match at Forest Hills in 1968.
The Crofter and the Laird	1970	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-13192-9	A memoir of the author's stay with his family on the island of Colonsay in Scotland, where his forebears had been raised.
Encounters with the Archdruid	1971	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-14822-8	Discussions in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon - with "Archdruid" David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth.
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed	1973	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51635-9	Story of the Aereon, a combination aerodyne/aerostat, a.k.a. hybrid airship.
The Curve of Binding Energy	1974	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-13373-5	Traveling American nuclear institutions with Theodore Taylor, one of the founders of those technologies. Finalist for the National Book Award.^[1]
The Survival of the Bark Canoe	1975	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-27207-7	The story of the ancient craft of making birch-bark canoes, still practiced by a builder in a small town in New Hampshire.
Coming into the Country	1977	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-52287-1	The story of Alaska and the Alaskans.
Basin and Range	1981	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-10914-1	First in his 'Annals of the Former World' series of books on geology and geologists. Republished in Annals of the Former World. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.^[2]
In Suspect Terrain	1983	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-17650-7	Second book in his 'Annals of the Former World' series on geology and geologists, from the outwash plains of Brooklyn to the Appalachian landscape. Republished in Annals of the former world.
La Place de la Concorde Suisse	1984	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-18241-8	The study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. Also published as The Swiss Army.
Heirs of General Practice	1986	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51974-9	Stories of young doctors who specialize in family practice. Also included in the Table of contents collection.
Rising from the Plains	1986	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-25082-0	Third book in his 'Annals of the Former World' series on geology and geologists, covering the Rockies and surrounding areas. Republished in Annals of the former world. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.^[2]
The Control of Nature	1989	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-12890-1	Three stories: the US Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to control the waters of the Mississippi near New Orleans; townspeople in Iceland cooling flowing lava to prevent it from flowing into their town; and residents of Los Angeles attempting to control debris flows that roar down mountain canyons.
Looking for a Ship	1990	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-19077-1	The story of one of the last American merchant ships. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.^[2]
Assembling California	1993	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-10645-2	Fourth book in his 'Annals of the Former World' series on geology and geologists. Surveys throughout California and elsewhere, describing the geologic history of the land. Republished in Annals of the former world.
The Ransom of Russian Art	1994	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-24682-3	The story of how an American professor of Soviet economics managed to remove thousands of works of art in the 1960s and 1970s from the Soviet Union to the US.
Annals of the Former World	1998	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-10520-0	Compilation of four previously published books on geology, plus a final part, "Crossing the Craton". Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1999.
The Founding Fish	2002	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-10444-1	The history of the shad, going back to the days of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau.
Uncommon Carriers	2006	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-28039-8	Essays on travels by several unconventional means, primarily ocean and water freight transportation.
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process	2017	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 9780374142742	Essays that form a guide to writing long-form nonfiction
Tabula Rasa	2023	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 978-0374603601	A collection of vignettes reflecting upon his writing career and projects he once planned to do but never got around to

Collections

Title	Date	Publication Details	Notes
A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles	1968	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51501-8	Collection.
Pieces of the Frame	1975	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51498-4	Collection.
The John McPhee Reader	1976	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-17992-1	Collection of excerpts from his first twelve books, edited by William L. Howarth.
Giving Good Weight	1979	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-16306-5	Collection. Title story is about New York City's Greenmarkets in 1976-1977.
Table of Contents	1985	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-27241-7	Collection.
The Second John McPhee Reader	1996	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-52463-7	Collection of excerpts from previously published nonfiction books and nonfiction essays, edited by Patricia Strachan.
Irons in the Fire	1997	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-17726-0	Collection of essays. The title essay describes a trip to Nevada where, accompanying a brand inspector, the author discovers that cattle rustling is still practiced.
Silk Parachute	2010	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-26373-6	Collection.
The Patch	2018	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 978-0374229481	His seventh collection of essays

Limited editions and other books

Title	Date	Publication Details	Notes
Wimbledon	1972	New York: The Viking Press ISBN 0-670-77079-5	Contains two essays – "Hoad on Court 5" (originally published in 1971 as "Centre Court" and collected in Pieces of the Frame) and "Twynam of Wimbledon" (originally published in 1968 and collected in A Roomful of Hovings) – and photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Alaska: Images of the Country	1981	San Francisco: Sierra Club Books ISBN 0871562901	Selections from Coming into the Country. Photographs by Galen Rowell.
Annals of the Former World. Two Volumes. Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain	1983	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Limited to 450 numbered copies signed by McPhee on the limitation page of each volume. Full cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Issued without dustjackets. Illustrated slipcase.
In the Highlands and Islands	1986	London: Faber and Faber ISBN 0-571-14599-X	Contains "The Crofter and the Laird" and three essays from Pieces of the Frame, all originally published in 1969 and 1970.
Outcroppings	1988	Layton: Gibbs Smith ISBN 0879052627	Writings on geology and ecology from Rising from the Plains, Basin and Range, and Encounters with the Archdruid. Photographs by Tom Till. Edited by Christopher Merrill.
The American Shad: Selections from The Founding Fish	2004	Far Hills, N.J.: Meadow Run Press ISBN 1-886967-14-8	Limited edition.
The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University	2011	Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press ISBN 9780691143071	Edited with Carol Rigolot.

Selected essays and reporting

"Progression: how and what?". The Writing Life. The New Yorker. 87 (36): 36, 39–42. November 14, 2011.
"Structure: beyond the picnic-table crisis". The Writing Life. The New Yorker. 88 (43): 46–55. January 14, 2013.
"Draft No. 4: replacing the words in boxes". The Writing Life. The New Yorker. 89 (11): 32–38. April 29, 2013.
"The Orange Trapper: compulsions are hard to explain". The Sporting Scene. The New Yorker. 89 (19): 30–34. July 1, 2013.
"Tabula rasa: volume one". Personal History. The New Yorker. 95 (44): 46–55. January 13, 2020.

Bibliography

Books

Title	Date	Publication Details	Notes
A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley	1965	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51485-2	A profile of Hall of Fame basketball player and Rhodes Scholar Bill Bradley.
The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield	1966	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-16860-1	Biography of Frank Boyden, long time headmaster of Deerfield Academy.
Oranges	1967	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-22688-1	The history and significance of the farming of oranges, how farmers have struggled with frost and how horticulturists have introduced new breeds of citrus.
The Pine Barrens	1968	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-23360-8	The story of the near wilderness central area of New Jersey, known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.
A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles	1968	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51501-8	Collection.
Levels of the Game	1969	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51526-3	Explores the relationship between two tennis players, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner, and their tennis match at Forest Hills in 1968.
The Crofter and the Laird	1970	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-13192-9	A memoir of the author's stay with his family on the island of Colonsay in Scotland, where his forebears had been raised.
Encounters with the Archdruid	1971	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-14822-8	Discussions in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon - with "Archdruid" David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth.
Wimbledon	1972	New York: The Viking Press ISBN 0-670-77079-5	Contains two essays – "Hoad on Court 5" (originally published in 1971 as "Centre Court" and collected in Pieces of the Frame) and "Twynam of Wimbledon" (originally published in 1968 and collected in A Roomful of Hovings) – and photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed	1973	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51635-9	Story of the Aereon, a combination aerodyne/aerostat, a.k.a. hybrid airship.
The Curve of Binding Energy	1974	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-13373-5	Traveling American nuclear institutions with Theodore Taylor, one of the founders of those technologies. Finalist for the National Book Award.^[1]
Pieces of the Frame	1975	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51498-4	Collection.
The Survival of the Bark Canoe	1975	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-27207-7	The story of the ancient craft of making birch-bark canoes, still practiced by a builder in a small town in New Hampshire.
The John McPhee Reader	1976	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-17992-1	Collection of excerpts from his first twelve books, edited by William L. Howarth.
Coming into the Country	1977	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-52287-1	The story of Alaska and the Alaskans.
Giving Good Weight	1979	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-16306-5	Collection. Title story is about New York City's Greenmarkets in 1976-1977.
Alaska: Images of the Country	1981	San Francisco: Sierra Club Books ISBN 0871562901	Selections from Coming into the Country. Photographs by Galen Rowell.
Basin and Range	1981	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-10914-1	First in his 'Annals of the Former World' series of books on geology and geologists. Republished in Annals of the Former World. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.^[2]
In Suspect Terrain	1983	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-17650-7	Second book in his 'Annals of the Former World' series on geology and geologists, from the outwash plains of Brooklyn to the Appalachian landscape. Republished in Annals of the former world.
Annals of the Former World. Two Volumes. Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain	1983	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Limited to 450 numbered copies signed by McPhee on the limitation page of each volume. Full cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Issued without dustjackets. Illustrated slipcase.
La Place de la Concorde Suisse	1984	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-18241-8	The study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. Also published as The Swiss Army.
Table of Contents	1985	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-27241-7	Collection.
Heirs of General Practice	1986	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-51974-9	Stories of young doctors who specialize in family practice. Also included in the Table of contents collection.
In the Highlands and Islands	1986	London: Faber and Faber ISBN 0-571-14599-X	Contains "The Crofter and the Laird" and three essays from Pieces of the Frame, all originally published in 1969 and 1970.
Rising from the Plains	1986	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-25082-0	Third book in his 'Annals of the Former World' series on geology and geologists, covering the Rockies and surrounding areas. Republished in Annals of the former world. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.^[2]
Outcroppings	1988	Layton: Gibbs Smith ISBN 0879052627	Writings on geology and ecology from Rising from the Plains, Basin and Range, and Encounters with the Archdruid. Photographs by Tom Till. Edited by Christopher Merrill.
The Control of Nature	1989	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-12890-1	Three stories: the US Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to control the waters of the Mississippi near New Orleans; townspeople in Iceland cooling flowing lava to prevent it from flowing into their town; and residents of Los Angeles attempting to control debris flows that roar down mountain canyons.
Looking for a Ship	1990	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-19077-1	The story of one of the last American merchant ships. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.^[2]
Assembling California	1993	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-10645-2	Fourth book in his 'Annals of the Former World' series on geology and geologists. Surveys throughout California and elsewhere, describing the geologic history of the land. Republished in Annals of the former world.
The Ransom of Russian Art	1994	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-24682-3	The story of how an American professor of Soviet economics managed to remove thousands of works of art in the 1960s and 1970s from the Soviet Union to the US.
The Second John McPhee Reader	1996	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-52463-7	Collection of excerpts from previously published nonfiction books and nonfiction essays, edited by Patricia Strachan.
Irons in the Fire	1997	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-17726-0	Collection of essays. The title essay describes a trip to Nevada where, accompanying a brand inspector, the author discovers that cattle rustling is still practiced.
Annals of the Former World	1998	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-10520-0	Compilation of four previously published books on geology, plus a final part, "Crossing the Craton". Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1999.
The Founding Fish	2002	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-10444-1	The history of the shad, going back to the days of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau.
The American Shad: Selections from The Founding Fish	2004	Far Hills, N.J.: Meadow Run Press ISBN 1-886967-14-8	Limited edition.
Uncommon Carriers	2006	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-28039-8	Essays on travels by several unconventional means, primarily ocean and water freight transportation.
Silk Parachute	2010	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-26373-6	Collection.
The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University	2011	Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press ISBN 9780691143071	Edited with Carol Rigolot.
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process	2017	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 9780374142742	Essays that form a guide to writing long-form nonfiction
The Patch	2018	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 978-0374229481	His seventh collection of essays
Tabula Rasa	2023	New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 978-0374603601	A collection of vignettes reflecting upon his writing career and projects he once planned to do but never got around to

Selected essays and reporting

"Progression: how and what?". The Writing Life. The New Yorker. 87 (36): 36, 39–42. November 14, 2011.
"Structure: beyond the picnic-table crisis". The Writing Life. The New Yorker. 88 (43): 46–55. January 14, 2013.
"Draft No. 4: replacing the words in boxes". The Writing Life. The New Yorker. 89 (11): 32–38. April 29, 2013.
"The Orange Trapper: compulsions are hard to explain". The Sporting Scene. The New Yorker. 89 (19): 30–34. July 1, 2013.
"Tabula rasa: volume one". Personal History. The New Yorker. 95 (44): 46–55. January 13, 2020.

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