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First edition, 2017
These essays first appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: McPhee, John, 1931– author.
Title: Draft no. 4: essays about the writing process / John McPhee.
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016059416 | ISBN 9780374142742 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780374712396 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Authorship. | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) | English language—Rhetoric.
Classification: LCC PN149 .M43 2017 | DDC 808.02—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016059416
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