Search results
Peter 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 ...
Apr 6, 2014 · Peter Matthiessen, shown here at his New York house in 2004, was a Zen Buddhist priest, a spy, an activist and a well-respected writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Ed Betz/AP hide...
May 18, 2024 · Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, and wilderness writer whose work dealt with the destructive effects of encroaching technology on preindustrial cultures and the natural environment.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 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.
Apr 6, 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...
- 6 min
Learn about the life and work of Peter Matthiessen, a literary lion who won the National Book Award for both fiction and non-fiction. Explore his travels, his love of nature and animals, and his Zen journey in this biography.
Apr 7, 2014 · Fresh 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.
