# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mcphee-q1701049
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:49:46.375Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-mcphee-q1701049"
name: "John McPhee"
slug: "john-mcphee-q1701049"
description: "John Angus McPhee is an American author. 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. In 2008, he received the George Polk Career Award for his \"indelible mark on American journalism during his nearly half-century career\". Since 1974, McPhee has been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Mcphee.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.152506666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574183/"
    handle:    "nm0574183"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.johnmcphee.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_McPhee"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%81%D9%8A_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "جون ماكفي (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Джон Макфий"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee_(Autor)"
    title: "John McPhee (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee"
    title: "John McPhee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee"
    title: "John McPhee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee"
    title: "John McPhee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee_(scrittore)"
    title: "John McPhee (scrittore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1701049"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1433948"
    title: "John McPhee"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump