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John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction.He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books, including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists). [1]
This is a list of Austrian writers, including poets ... Felix Salten (1869–1945), Jewish writer (most famous work Bambi) Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), writer;
The Control of Nature is a 1989 nonfiction book by John McPhee that chronicles three attempts to control natural processes that had varying success. The book combines three long essays previously published in The New Yorker: "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains".
In Austria, the imperial state also censored all books mercilessly; The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe's novel depicting a young man's ecstatic love and suicide, spawned a string of copycat suicides across Germany, and many states banned the work, but Austrian authorities also banned Goethe's entire opus. It came mostly from Empress Maria ...
Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author; Erich Eliskases (1913–1997), chess grandmaster; Otto Fischer (1901–1941), footballer and coach; Siegfried Flesch (1872–1939), sabre fencer, Olympic bronze medalist; Toni Fritsch (1945–2005), soccer and football player who won the Super Bowl in 1972
Encounters with the Archdruid (1971) is a narrative nonfiction book by author John McPhee. Encounters is split into three parts, each covering environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies. [1] The book chronicles his struggles against miners, developers and finally the United States Bureau of Reclamation. McPhee ...
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