Writer John McPhee has tackled wide variety of topics, from oranges to the geological history of North America. NPR's Scott Simon talks with McPhee about his latest book, "Tabula Rasa." Great ...

Tabula Rasa: Volume 1; By John McPhee; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 192 pp., $28.00 John McPhee, one of the demigods of postwar American nonfiction, is 92 years old. He knows that his self-reckoning ...

Long before John McPhee’s The Pine Barrens was published, New Jersey’s vast, dreamlike swath of sand and scrubby pines was seen as a wasteland by the unfamiliar, a place full of pirate lore ...

So it goes with journalism. John McPhee, aged 92, is a writer’s writer. A father of literary non-fiction, he has tackled subjects as varied as fishing and oranges in his 32 books and 60 years ...

All writers have false starts. We once stuffed them in manila folders and pushed them deep inside our desks; now we store them in a different kind of folder. But we still rarely give up on them ...

A few summers after Johnson signed the act, John McPhee hiked out to Miners Ridge, in Washington State’s Glacier Peak Wilderness, where an enormous copper mine was planned. With him were two men ...