Larkin McPhee

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Larkin McPhee is a Peabody and Emmy award-winning director, producer and writer of documentary films covering topics ranging from the environment to mental health to the cosmos. Meticulous research, outstanding characters and powerful story-telling make McPhee's films extraordinarily compelling. Her skills as a director, writer and documentarian bring beauty and clarity to any topic. McPhee's documentaries impart a deep knowledge of the subject matter and provide viewers with a blueprint for positive change.

McPhee is perhaps best known for her intimate, sensitive portrayals of people in critically acclaimed films such as “Depression: Out of the Shadows,” a primetime PBS special on the illness of depression; “Dying To Be Thin,” a NOVA specia
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"Before this book, every family memoir I read was written as an act of revenge. Not this time.

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"Larkin McPhee's memoir and tribute to her brother is moving and beautifully written. She weaves the story of her charismatic brother with her family history in a compelling way. Anyone who has lost a loved one to ALS (or any drawn-out illness) will f" Read more of this review »
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"In her first remarkable book -- self-described as a "sibling love story" -- Peabody and Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker Larkin McPhee recounts the illness and death of her beloved younger brother Charles McPhee from ALS at the age of 49. But" Read more of this review »
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