A Terrific Princeton Alumni Weekly profile Piece on Writer and Teacher John McPhee

McPhee taught us to revere language, to care about every word, and to abjure the loose synonym. He told us that words have subtle and distinct meanings, textures, implications, intonations, flavors. (McPhee might say: “Nuances” alone could have done the … Continue reading A Terrific Princeton Alumni Weekly profile Piece on Writer and Teacher John McPhee