The Headmaster (book)

The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield is a 1966 book by John McPhee, profiling Frank Boyden, the long-time headmaster of Deerfield Academy. The book was expanded from a magazine profile in The New Yorker.

The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield

Author	John McPhee
Published	1966
ISBN	0-374-51496-8

Critical reception

The Kirkus review called the book an "effortless portrait" and wrote that it was "much more interesting" than Roger Drury's Drury of St. Paul's (1964).^[1]

The Boston Globe review noted that the book was not only a depiction of Boyden, but also "a record of the touching and memorable partnership of a man and his wife."^[2]

Jan Ophus wrote in Education Week in 2000 that the book should be required reading for every high school principal.^[3]