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    Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder...
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  • of a podcast. In January, 2007, the New York Times reported that Peter Matthiessen had been working for the CIA at the time of the founding of the Paris...
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    Tanzania. After her parents' divorce, Sarah's mother married writer Peter Matthiessen. Koenig attended Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts. Koenig...
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  • Far Tortuga (category Novels by Peter Matthiessen)
    Far Tortuga is a novel by American author Peter Matthiessen, first published in 1975 by Random House and republished in 1976 by Bantam. Known for its...
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  • literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, The Paris Review published...
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  • 1991) 1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor (died 2021) 1927 – Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris...
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  • (born 1920) 2014 – Mariano Díaz, Spanish cyclist (born 1939) 2014 – Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris...
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  • Illinois Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014), American novelist Matheson (surname) Mathiasen Mathiesen This page lists people with the surname Matthiessen. If an...
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  • Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian 1974 Biography; 1974 History Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard 1979 Contemporary Thought; 1980 General Nonfiction...
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    Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the co-founder of the WWF. with Peter Matthiessen: Sand Rivers, Aurum Press, London 1981, ISBN 0-906053-22-6. Savage...
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  • Alex Matthiessen (born July 3, 1964) is an environmentalist and lives in New York City. He is the son of author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen. Mr....
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  • adapted from the 1965 novel of the same name by American author Peter Matthiessen. The screenplay was written by Babenco and Jean-Claude Carrière, and...
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  • to the Film Dead Birds, ethnographic monographs, and film shorts. Peter Matthiessen separately wrote about the Dugum Dani and Baliem Valley in his book...
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  • The Snow Leopard (category Books by Peter Matthiessen)
    The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen. It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in...
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  • laureate Nadine Gordimer, authors Ray Bradbury, Wallace Stegner, Peter Matthiessen, and William Styron. gorilla to challenge humanity’s self-centred...
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    approached him for interviews; he granted particularly close access to Peter Matthiessen and Jacques E. Levy, both of whom wrote favorable books about him...
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  • African Silences (category Books by Peter Matthiessen)
    African Silences is a 1991 book by Peter Matthiessen published by Random House. It recounts journeys through Equatorial Africa to study the situation...
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    Equity Group in New York. When Towles was a young man, he credited Peter Matthiessen, nature writer, novelist, and one of the founders of The Paris Review...
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  • the Red Power Movement. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300240412. Peter Matthiessen, "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the...
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    located to the west. The following is copied from the back cover of Peter Matthiessen’s book Under the Mountain Wall: In the Baliem Valley in Central New...
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  • In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (category Books by Peter Matthiessen)
    In the Spirit of Crazy Horse is a book by Peter Matthiessen which chronicles "the story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's war on the American Indian Movement...
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  • Shadow Country (category Novels by Peter Matthiessen)
    Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in 2008. Subtitled A New Rendering of the Watson Legend, it is a semi-fictional...
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    Southern, and editors of The Paris Review, such as George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, and Robert Silvers. George Whitman had modeled his shop after Sylvia...
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    Francis Otto Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 – April 1, 1950) was an educator, scholar, and literary critic, influential in the fields of American literature...
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    Paris, he became friends with writers Romain Gary, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, James Baldwin, James Jones and Irwin Shaw, among others. In 1953...
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    R. K. Narayan, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Michael Ondaatje, Peter Matthiessen, and Isamu Noguchi. He has appeared seven times in the annual Best...
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    1952, Plimpton was recruited by Peter Matthiessen to join the literary journal The Paris Review, founded by Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold...
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  • End of the Earth: Voyage to Antarctica (category Books by Peter Matthiessen)
    Antarctica is a 2004 book by Peter Matthiessen published by National Geographic Books. The book describes two journeys taken by Matthiessen to Antarctica: the first...
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  • for the Great White Shark by Peter Matthiessen, New York Times, April 23, 1971 IMDb: "Blue Water, White Death" IMDb: "Peter Lake" Thom Benson, "Famous Shark...
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    collected works. Peter Matthiessen consistently spoke of Conrad as a substantial influence on his work. [10 Paris Review with Peter Matthiessen]. The title...
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