John McPhee, nonfiction master, coming to the library

A giant in the nonfiction world will appear at the Kansas City Public Library on March 29. The Writers at Work series has scheduled an evening with Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee.

In 1965, McPhee published a profile of Bill Bradley in The New Yorker, which continues to print his work. In fact, the magazine’s current editor, David Remnick, took the writing class McPhee teaches at Princeton University.

The environment is one of McPhee’s favorite subjects. He draws on “innate powers of description, lucid exposition and easy rapport with his subjects” in the words of writer Kevin Kerrane.