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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. [1] A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). [2]
Alex Matthiessen (born July 3, 1964) is an environmentalist and lives in New York City. He is the son of author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen. Biography Mr ...
At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. [1] A film adapted from the book was released in 1991. A 2009 audiobook version was read by actor Anthony Heald. It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. "In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash.
Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in 2008. Subtitled A New Rendering of the Watson Legend, it is a semi-fictional account of the life of Scottish-American Edgar "Bloody" Watson (1855–1910), a real Florida sugar cane planter and alleged outlaw who was killed by a posse of his neighbors in the remote Ten Thousand Islands region of southwest Florida.
[8] [9] After her parents' divorce, Sarah's mother married writer Peter Matthiessen. [10] Koenig attended Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts . [ 11 ] Koenig graduated from the University of Chicago in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Political Science.
Here's the story of the real-life Bradys! It's been more than 45 years since "The Brady Bunch" first premiered in 1969, introducing to the public six kids who stole America's heart.
The father-of-four has never kept his eldest children from the limelight but protects the identities of the son and daughter he shares with second wife Dr Emily. Peter Andre explains why he keeps ...
Peter Oppenheimer had three children. Two of them live public lives and comment on their grandfather's legacy. Dr. Dorothy Oppenheimer Vanderford, is a technical writer based in southern Nevada, ...