This is FRESH AIR. The publication of Peter Matthiessen's final novel "In Paradise" is coinciding with his obituary. He died Saturday at the age of 86. We're going to listen back to an excerpt of my ...

In interviews, Peter Matthiessen always had to answer, in his correct, patrician tones, a question seldom put to other writers: Just what kind of writer, exactly, are you? The confusion was ...

Photograph courtesy of Peter Matthiessen. Lance Richardson’s door-stopper biography, True Nature, the Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, is the first biography written about him, though a documentary ...

Author Peter Matthiessen, who used fiction and nonfiction to explore how man relates to nature, has died at 86. The revered naturalist and... Author Peter Matthiessen, who used fiction and nonfiction ...

That ghostly whale fragment can’t help suggest Peter Matthiessen as modern American literature’s Ahab. Not raging across oceans in search of revenge but scouring the far ends of the earth and its seas ...

Peter Matthiessen, who died this month at age 86 of complications from leukemia, was complex, even contradictory, in the most compelling sense. Born into privilege, he attended Hotchkiss boarding ...

Bookworm Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen recently won the National Book Award for Shadow Country, a novel closely connected to three previous books. We offer this 1999 conversation about one of ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Peter Matthiessen, two-time National Book Award winner, will give Montana State University's ...

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