REUTERS - Naturalist Peter Matthiessen, an award-winning American author who helped create the Paris Review and brought to life tales from the wilderness centered on his excursions to faraway lands, ...
“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen. By Dwight Garner What was I trying to escape by making this dangerous trek? By John Kaag Peter ...
Restlessness is deeply rooted in American mythology. We are a country of pilgrims, engaged in a lifelong search for what Ralph Waldo Emerson called an “original relation to the universe”—a unique ...
Photograph courtesy of Peter Matthiessen. Lance Richardson’s door-stopper biography, True Nature, the Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, is the first biography written about him, though a documentary ...
Author Peter Matthiessen, who used fiction and nonfiction to explore how man relates to nature, has died at 86. The revered naturalist and... Author Peter Matthiessen, who used fiction and nonfiction ...
Peter Matthiessen, the acclaimed novelist and travel writer who died at 86 in 2014, is a rich subject for a biography for many reasons: He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for both ...