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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
Last car driven by Elvis Presley on display in North Carolina  Saturday, Apr 05, 2014 04:07 AM PDT By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Elvis Presley, who in his lifetime owned more than 200 automobiles and crooned the tune "No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car," took the wheel of one of his favorite cars in 1977 for what was to be his final drive. After Presley drove his black 1973 Stutz Blackhawk III home, just hours before his death, the 230-horsepower V-8 vehicle with soft red leather interior and 18-karat gold trim sat nearly idle for decades at Graceland, the entertainer's Tennessee estate. The vintage car is on display this weekend in North Carolina, for the first time since undergoing a refurbishment aimed at getting it back in working condition without losing any of its physical ties to the "King of Rock and Roll." "It still has all of Elvis' DNA on it," said Walt Hollifield, the car collector and restorer chosen to oversee the recent 12-week preservation effort. The Stutz will be featured in an auto show at Charlotte Motor Speedway through Sunday, then returned to the Graceland auto museum in Memphis to be exhibited with more than 20 others in the performer's collection. Full Story	Top

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