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Peter Matthiessen, author-adventurer, co-creator of Paris Review, dies at 86 Saturday, Apr 05, 2014 09:06 PM PDT 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, died on Saturday at age 86, his publishing company said. "We are honored to have known him and his beautiful and wild mind." Matthiessen died of leukemia, his son told the New York Times, which said his death occurred at his home in Sagaponack, New York. The environmentalist and chronicler of indigenous peoples was the only author to win the National Book Award in both nonfiction and fiction, taking the prize in the first category with his 1978 "The Snow Leopard," about his travels in Nepal, and in the second with a 2008 collection of stories "Shadow Country." He also won acclaim for a 1965 novel "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" and a 1983 book "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" which delved into a 1975 gun battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists. Full Story | Top |
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