Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, Zen teacher and onetime CIA agent, and a co-founder of The Paris Review. He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction, for The Snow Leopard, and fiction, for Shadow Country in 2008, a one-volume revision of three novels set in frontier Florida. His nonfiction treated nature, travel and American Indian history, including the controversial In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983), and his novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord was filmed in 1991. He was also a prominent environmental activist, and died in 2014 just before his last novel, In Paradise, appeared.
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Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927, April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent.
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he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction
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was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer
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In 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country
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was an American novelist
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In 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country, a one-volume, 890-page revision of his three novels set in frontier Florida that had been published in the 1990s.
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Matthiessen's nonfiction featured nature and travel
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