Teaching
McPhee is also a renowned nonfiction writing instructor at Princeton University, having taught generations of aspiring undergraduate writers. McPhee still teaches his writing seminar two years out of every three, most recently during the spring 2012 semester.
Many of McPhee's students have achieved distinction for their writing:
- David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and current editor-in-chief of The New Yorker
- Richard Stengel, the current managing editor of Time magazine
- Jim Kelly, the former managing editor of Time
- Robert Wright, former senior editor at The New Republic and columnist for Time, Slate and the New York Times, and author of award-winning books
- Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and other books
- Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and other books about infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism
- Peter Hessler, contributor to The New Yorker and author of three books about China
- Timothy Ferriss, entrepreneur and author of New York Times bestsellers The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body
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