 Cambridge in America invites you to a very special alumni event in New York City
with author John McPhee (Magdalene College, 1953), who will read an excerpt from Silk Parachute (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010), his newest collection of essays.
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: The Yale Club of New York City
50 Vanderbilt Avenue on the corner of 44th Street
$25.00 /person
Click here to register for this event.
John McPhee was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge (1953) and at Princeton University where he is now the Ferris Professor of Journalism. His prolific writing career began at Time magazine in 1957 and led to his long association with the New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. One of McPhee's first pieces in the New Yorker, "Basketball and Beefeaters", describes his experience playing on the Cambridge basketball team and the game they nearly played against the Royal Fusiliers at the Tower of London.
McPhee is the author of 28 books, among them Annals of the Former World (1998), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. His most recent book, Silk Parachute, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2010.
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