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Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent. 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). He was also a prominent environmental activist.

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Born	1927
Died	2014

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In the spirit of Crazy Horse

by Peter Matthiessen and Peter Matthiessen
First published in 1798
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Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 1962
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African Silences

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 1991
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Partisans

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 1955
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País de sombras

by Peter Matthiessen and Javier Calvo Perales First published in 2010
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 1965
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In Paradise: A Novel

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 2014
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Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 1884
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Wildlife in America

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 1959
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Zen Meditation in Plain English

by John Daishin Buksbazen and Peter Matthiessen First published in 2005
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Tree Where Man Was Born

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 1972
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Far Tortuga

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 1976
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Snow Leopard

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 1979
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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend

by Peter Matthiessen and Anthony Heald First published in 2011
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Cloud Forest

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 1961
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Endocrine Disrupters: Hazard Testing and Assessment Methods

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 2013
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Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution

by Peter Matthiessen
First published in 1969
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At play in the fields of the Lord

by Peter Matthiessen and Anthony Heald First published in 1967
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Realidades ajenas

by Antonio Tabucchi, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jan Stage, James Hamilton-Paterson, Peter Matthiessen, Krasznahorkai, László., and Daniel Schwartz First published in 2000
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The birds of heaven

by Peter Matthiessen First published in 2002
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Born	1927
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