Writing About Writers: John McPhee and Creative Nonfiction
Featured writers: Noel Rubinton and Donna Seaman
Journalist and author Noel Rubinton sits down with Booklist Editor-in-Chief Donna Seaman to discuss the work and legacy of John McPhee. In Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee, Rubinton provides an annotated guide to the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfiction.
Book signing times (all signings take place in the First Floor Lobby of the library)
🖊️Noel Rubinton: 1:00 – 1:20
About the writers:
NOEL RUBINTON is a journalist whose writing has appeared in leading publications such as the New York Times and the Washington Post. He was a reporter and editor for Newsday for many years. His writing has spanned many fields, including politics, culture, transportation, and history. His essay about H.P. Lovecraft and Providence is collected in the New York Times book Footsteps: Literary Pilgrimages Around the World and he wrote the foreword to Repression, Re-invention, & Rugelach: A History of Jews at Colgate. A graduate of Deerfield Academy and Brown University, he has been reading John McPhee’s writing for many decades.
DONNA SEAMAN is the Editor-in-Chief at Booklist, a member of the Content Leadership Team for the American Writers Museum, an adjunct professor for Northwestern University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, School of Professional Studies, and a recipient of the Louis Shores Award for excellence in book reviewing, the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism, and the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award. Seaman created the anthology In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness; her author interviews are collected in Writers on the Air: Conversations About Books, and she is the author of Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists. She lives in Chicago. Visit: https://www.donnaseaman.com
Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee
by Noel Rubinton
For over than 70 years, John McPhee has written compelling stories about real people and the world around them, revolutionizing the genre of nonfiction writing along the way. Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee brings his entire career into focus—cataloging his works, including uncovering writing that has been rarely seen or never before connected with him, and telling the story of his remarkable journey as a writer.
River of Books: A Life in Reading
by Donna Seaman