Peter Matthiessen won the National Book Award three times and co-founded the influential literary journal Paris Review. The author of “Shadow Country” and “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse” was an ardent ...

“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen. By Dwight Garner What was I trying to escape by making this dangerous trek? By John Kaag Peter ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Matthiessen, a rich man’s son who spurned a life of leisure and embarked on extraordinary physical and spiritual quests while producing such acclaimed books as “The Snow Leopard” ...

NEW YORK – Peter Matthiessen, a rich man's son who spurned a life of ease in favor of physical and spiritual challenges and produced such acclaimed works as "The Snow Leopard" and "At Play in the ...

SAGAPONACK, N.Y., April 6 (UPI) -- Peter Matthiessen, the only writer to win the National Book Award in both fiction and nonfiction, died at his home in Sagaponack, N.Y., on Saturday -- the end of a ...

He is the only writer to ever win the National Book Award in the categories of Fiction (for Shadow Country) and General Nonfiction (for The Snow Leopard, which also won for Contemporary Thought). He ...

Peter Matthiessen, a roving author and naturalist whose impassioned nonfiction explored the remote endangered wilds of the world and whose prizewinning fiction often placed his mysterious protagonists ...

Peter Matthiessen, who died Saturday at age 86 of complications from leukemia, was complex, even contradictory, in the most compelling sense. Born into privilege, he attended Hotchkiss boarding school ...

Peter Matthiessen, the American author who co-founded The Paris Review and won awards for books such as The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, died on Saturday at the age of 86. His publisher, Geoff ...

Peter Matthiessen, who has died aged 86, was an author and naturalist whose personal landscape was as wild, dangerous and eclectic as that he detailed in prose; he was, variously, a novelist, travel ...