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Peter Matthiessen

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Gender Male
Death10 years ago
Date of birth May 22,1927
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born New York
United States
Date of died April 5,2014
DiedSagaponack
New York
United States
Spouse Maria Eckhart
Deborah Love
Patsy Southgate
Children Alex Matthiessen
Job Author
Novelist
Movies/Shows At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Fighting for Our Lives
Dead Birds
The Young One
Awards National Book Award for Fiction
National Book Award for Nonfiction
National Book Award for Contemporary Thought
Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback)
Helmerich Award
Ambassador Book Award for Fiction
Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
Parents Elizabeth Matthiessen
Erard A. Matthiessen
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Date of Upd.
ID498397

The Snow Leopard
Shadow Country
Far Tortuga
In Paradise
Killing Mister Watson
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
The tree where man was born
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Lost Man's River
Bone by Bone
Under the mountain wall
Wildlife in America
The Cloud Forest
Men's lives
Nine-Headed Dragon River
Blue meridian
Race Rock
The Birds of Heaven
Raditzer
African Silences
Indian country
Sand rivers
Tigers in the snow
On the River Styx and other stories
Sal Si Puedes
The Peter Matthiessen reader
End of the Earth
Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia
The Wind Birds: Shorebirds of North America
East of Lo Monthang
An African Trilogy
Partisans: A Novel
Shadows of Africa
End of the Earth: Voyage to Antarctica
Courage for the Earth
Zen and the Writing Life
Homeopathy in Healthcare: Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Safety, Costs
The Children of Bladensfield
Oomingmak: The Expedition to the Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea
The Great Auk Escape
Midnight turning gray
No Boundaries
Freshwater Field Tests for Hazard Assessment of Chemicals
Silencios de Africa, Los
Endocrine Disrupters: Hazard Testing and Assessment Methods
En La Laguna Estigia y Otros Relatos
Deux saisons à l'âge de pierre
Tiger im Schnee. Ein Plädoyer für den Sibirischen Tiger.
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Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he was the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction and fiction. He was also a prominent environmental activist.

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