Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter.
He lives in Princeton, New Jersey..
In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World.
Mc Phee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977.
Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.
Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011).
His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965.
About the Author: John Mc Phee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University.
John Mc Phee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities." More than simply a portrait of the Headmaster of Deerfield Academy, it is a revealing look at the nature of private school education in America.
Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school\'s headmaster for sixty-six years.
Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter
