Peter Matthiessen
Photo by Linda Girvin
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
Peter Matthiessen
In Paradise
Peter Matthiessen
The Tree Where Man Was Born
Peter Matthiessen
Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen; Introduction by Pico Iyer
Bone by Bone
Peter Matthiessen
The Peter Matthiessen Reader
Peter Matthiessen Edited and With an Introduction by McKay Jenkins
Lost Man's River
Peter Matthiessen
Blue Meridian
Peter Matthiessen
African Silences
Peter Matthiessen
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Peter Matthiessen
Killing Mister Watson
Peter Matthiessen
On the River Styx
Peter Matthiessen
Far Tortuga
Peter Matthiessen
Men's Lives
Peter Matthiessen
Under the Mountain Wall
Peter Matthiessen
The Cloud Forest
Peter Matthiessen
North American Indians
George Catlin; Edited with an Introduciton by Peter Matthiessen
Nine-Headed Dragon River
Peter Matthiessen