Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen 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 and fiction. He was also a prominent environmental activist.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Yale UniversityHotchkiss SchoolSt. Bernard's School
- Awards
- 🏆 National Book Award🏆 John Burroughs Medal🏆 William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters🏆 National Book Award for Nonfiction🏆 Heinz Award
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Trending topics shown first"The ancient intuition that all matter, all “reality,” is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled si…"
"When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we …"
"Peter Matthiesse, The Art of Fiction No. 157" interview by Howard Norman, in The Paris Review"
"Time Passes , a film portrait of Peter Matthiessen by Pat van Boeckel broadcast in the Netherlands by the Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation"
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Timeline
1927
Born
Birth2014
Died
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