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Peter Matthiessen
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Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen
(May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer and
CIA
agent
. A co-founder of the
literary magazine
The Paris Review
, he was a 2008
National Book Award
winner. He was also a prominent environmental activist. His nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably
The Snow Leopard
(1978) and
American Indian
issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial study of the
Leonard Peltier
case,
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
(1983). His fiction was adapted for film: the early story "Travelin' Man" was made into
The Young One
(1960) by
Luis Buñuel
and the novel
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
(1965) into the
1991 film of the same name
.
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