From the Princeton Alumni Weekly, Joel Achenbach interviews a half-dozen of his fellow students and writes about learning from the master of non-fiction, who has influenced several generations of writers in the class he has taught for four decades: "Perhaps there are writers out there who make it look easy, but that is not the example set by McPhee. He is of the school of thought that says a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than for other people."
November 30, 2014