Peter Matthiessen (born May 22, 1927, in New York City) is an American naturalist, author of historical fiction and non-fiction, and co-founder of The Paris Review. Matthiessen's work is known for its meticulous approach to research. He frequently focuses on American Indian issues and history, as in his detailed study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now often viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines of integrative organismal biology. ... // The Paris Review is an English-language literary magazine based in New York City. ... This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ... Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. ...

Career

Along with George Plimpton, Harold L. Humes, Thomas Guinzburg and Donald Hall, Matthiessen founded the literary magazine The The Paris Review in 1953. At the time he was a young recruit for the CIA ^[1] George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. ... Harold L. Humes, also known as Doc, was born in Douglas, Arizona in 1926, and died at St. ... Donald Hall (born September 20, 1928) is an American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... CIA redirects here. ...

In 1965, Matthiessen wrote a novel about a group of American missionaries and a South American tribe. The book was later made into a major Hollywood film with the same title, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, in 1991. In 1979, Matthiessen's nonfiction book The Snow Leopard won the Contemporary Thought category of the National Book Award. His work on oceanographic research, "Blue Meridian," with photographer Peter A. Lake, documented the making of the film "Blue Water, White Death," which was directed by Peter Gimbel and Jim Lipscomb. This is widely considered to have inspired Peter Benchley to write Jaws in 1974.^{[citation needed]} Matthiessen has been the official State Author of New York, 1995-1997. The 1991 motion picture drama At Play in the Fields of the Lord stars Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates, Daryl Hannah, John Lithgow and Tom Waits. ... The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ... Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author best known for writing the novel Jaws and co-writing the screenplay for its highly successful film adaptation. ... Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author best known for writing the novel Jaws and co-writing the screenplay for its highly successful film adaptation. ...

More recently, Matthiessen's fiction trilogy Killing Mr. Watson, Lost Man's River and Bone by Bone was based on accounts of Florida planter Edgar J. Watson's death shortly after the Southwest Florida Hurricane of 1910. This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ... The 1910 Atlantic hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. ...

Personal life

In his book The Snow Leopard, Matthiessen reports having a somewhat tempestuous on-again off-again relationship with his wife Deborah, culminating in a deep commitment to each other made shortly before she was diagnosed with cancer. She died in New York City near the end of 1972. She and Matthiessen had four children; the youngest of them, Alex Matthiessen, was 7 or 8 years old at the time of her death. In September of the following year, Matthiessen went on an expedition to the Himalayas with field biologist George Schaller. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For the movie Himalaya, see Himalaya (film). ... Dr. George Schaller at a lecture in Beijing Zoo on Aug. ...

Matthiessen and Deborah practiced Zen Buddhism. Matthiessen later became a Buddhist priest of the White Plum Asanga.^{[citation needed]} He lives in Sagaponack, New York. For other uses, see Zen (disambiguation). ... Sagaponack is a census-designated place located in Suffolk County, New York. ...

Bibliography

Fiction

• Race Rock (1954)
• Partisans (1955)
• Raditzer (1961)
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965)
• Far Tortuga (1975)
• On the River Styx and Other Stories (1989)
• Killing Mister Watson (1990)
• Lost Man's River (1997)
• Bone by Bone (1999)
• Shadow Country (2008) (a new rendering of the Watson trilogy)

Nonfiction

• Wildlife in America (1959)
• The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (1961)
• Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age (1962)
• "The Atlantic Coast", a chapter in The American Heritage Book of Natural Wonders (1963)
• The Shorebirds of North America (1967)
• Oomingmak (1967)
• Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution (1969)
• Blue Meridian. The Search for the Great White Shark (1971).
• The Tree Where Man Was Born (1972)
• The Snow Leopard (1978)
• Sand Rivers (1981)
• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983) ISBN 0-14-014456-0
• Indian Country (1984)
• Nine-headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 (1986)
• Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Bayen of the South Fork (1986)
• African Silences(1991)
• Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia (1992)
• East of Lo Monthang: In the Land of the Mustang (1995)
• The Peter Matthiessen Reader: Nonfiction, 1959-1961 (2000)
• Tigers in the Snow (2000)
• The Birds of Heaven: Travels With Cranes (2001)
• End of the Earth: Voyage to Antarctica (2003)

References

1. ^ McGee, Gina. "The Burgeoning Rebirth of a Bygone Literary Star", New York Times, 2007-01-13. Retrieved on 2007-01-15.