Peter Matthiessen, author portrait
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Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review. Besides At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he published six other works of fiction, including Far Tortuga and Killing Mister Watson. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer resulted in numerous widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Snow Leopard, which won it. Matthiessen died in 2014.
The Snow Leopard
In Paradise
The Tree Where Man Was Born
Shadow Country
The Snow Leopard
Bone by Bone
The Peter Matthiessen Reader
Lost Man's River
Blue Meridian
African Silences
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Killing Mister Watson
On the River Styx
Men's Lives
Far Tortuga
The Cloud Forest
Under the Mountain Wall

Books

The Snow Leopard
In Paradise
The Tree Where Man Was Born
Shadow Country
The Snow Leopard
Bone by Bone
The Peter Matthiessen Reader
Lost Man's River
Blue Meridian
African Silences
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Killing Mister Watson
On the River Styx
Men's Lives
Far Tortuga
The Cloud Forest
Under the Mountain Wall

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