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Bookmark or Share- About Peter — THE PETER MATTHIESSEN CENTERA novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer and Zen teacher, Peter Matthiessen was a true “literary lion” of 20th Century American literature - writing over thirty books during his six-decade career. The only author to win the prestigious National Book Award for both the fiction and non-fiction, his poetic explorations of wild places and ...
- Peter Matthiessen, Lyrical Writer and Naturalist, Is Dead at 86April 5, 2014. Peter Matthiessen, a roving author and naturalist whose impassioned nonfiction explored the remote endangered wilds of the world and whose prizewinning fiction often placed his...
- Peter Matthiessen - WikipediaPeter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review , he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction ( The Snow Leopard , 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction ...
- Peter Matthiessen On Writing And Zen Buddhism : NPRFresh Air listens back to our 1989 interview with Snow Leopard author and Paris Review co-founder Peter Matthiessen, who died Saturday at age 86. His new novel In Paradise comes out Tuesday.
- A Writer’s Controversial Past That Will Not Die - The New York TimesFeb. 2, 2018. In the winter of 1953 the young writer Peter Matthiessen came to the edge of a crisis. He and his wife, Patsy, who was also an aspiring writer, were living in Paris. Patsy was...
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