Peter Matthiessen, a 2008 National Book Award winner, is best known as both a novelist and non-fiction writer, but he's also an environmental activist and American Indian rights advocate. Jeffrey ...

Peter Matthiessen’s nephew recalls both his uncle’s career as a writer and his experience as an operative for the C.I.A. By Jeff Wheelwright Feb. 2, 2018 Dot Earth ...

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.

Matthiessen died Saturday at a hospital near his Sagaponack, N.Y., home, his publisher, Riverhead Books, announced. He had been undergoing leukemia treatment for more than a year. He was 86.

Author Peter Matthiessen has died in New York at the age of 86 from acute myeloid leukemia. Matthiessen, a novelist and naturalist, wrote 33 books; among his best-known works are The Snow Leopard ...

PETER MATTHIESSEN: Well, I think it almost - in the nature of Zen, to speak about it is already kind of missing the point because Zen, the whole teaching depends on the immediacy and the ...

Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen, . . Modern Library, $35 (892pp) ISBN 978-0-679-64019-6 ...

Lost Man's River, Peter Matthiessen's guided tour of the Ten Thousand Islands region of Florida's Everglades, is effectively an anti-travelogue, a gorgeous piece of photography during which ...

Peter Matthiessen The Fifth Day A native New Yorker in his twenty-fifth year, PETER MATTHIESSEN was educated at Yale and the Sorbonne, and is now living and working in France.

Capt. Peter Matthiessen, the man who has organized the Roanoke’s 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb for the last nine years, was recognized for his work Monday.

Writers Peter Matthiessen, Tom Wolfe, Louis Begley, E L Doctorow and other friends, family members and admirers pay tribute to late George Plimpton at Guild Hall in East Hampton; photo (M) ...

Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen, , read by Anthony Heald. . Blackstone Audio, $125 ( , unabridged, 32 CDs, 40 hrs., $125 ISBN p) ISBN 978-1-4332-8766-4 ...