Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review. Besides At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he published six other works of fiction, including Far Tortuga and Killing Mister Watson. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer resulted in numerous widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Snow Leopard, which won it. Matthiessen died in 2014.

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In Paradise
Author: Peter Matthiessen | Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Release Date: April 08, 2014
A profoundly searching new novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement.In the winter of 1996, more than a hundred women and men of diverse nationality, background, and belief gather at the site of a former concentration camp for a...
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The Snow Leopard
Author: Peter Matthiessen | Narrator: Peter Matthiessen
Release Date: April 08, 2014
An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas...IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful s...
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