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Peter Matthiessen
Peter MatthiessenAmerican novelist
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  1. Early life

    Matthiessen was born in New York City to Erard Adolph Matthiessen (1902–2000) and Elizabeth (née Carey). … See more

    Writings

    In 1959, Matthiessen published the first edition of Wildlife in America, a history of the extinction and endangerment of animal and bird species as a consequence of human settlement, throughout North American h… See more

    BornMay 22, 1927 · New York City, U.S.
    DiedApril 5, 2014 (aged 86) · Sagaponack, New York, U.S.
    EducationYale University (BA)
    SpousePatsy Southgate · (m. 1950; div. 1956) · Deborah Love · (m. 1963; died 1972) · Maria Eckhart · (m. 1980)
    Crazy Horse lawsuits

    Shortly after the 1983 publication of In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Matthiessen and his publisher Viking Penguin were sued for libel by David Price, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, and William J. Janklow, the former … See more

    Personal life

    After graduating from Yale in 1950, Matthiessen became engaged to Patsy Southgate, a Smith graduate whose father had been the chief of protocol in Roosevelt's White House. Matthiessen and Southgate … See more

    Awards

    • 1979 National Book Award, Contemporary Thought, for The Snow Leopard
    • 1980 National Book Award, General Non-Fiction (paperback), for The Snow Leopard
    • 1991 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy o… See more

    Works

    • Race Rock (1954) ISBN 0394745388
    • Partisans (1955) ISBN 0394753429
    • Raditzer (1961)
    At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965)… See more

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