Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness
writer, CIA agent, and co-founder of the literary magazine The
Paris Review. A prominent environmental activist, his nonfiction
featured nature and travel, notably The Snow Leopard, and American
Indian issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial
study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.
His fiction was adapted for film- the early story "Travelin' Man"
was made into The Young One by Luis Buñuel and the novel At Play
in the Fields of the Lord into the 1991 film of the same name.
In 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award
for Fiction for Shadow Country, a one-volume, 890-page revision of
his three novels set in frontier Florida that had been published in
the 1990s. He died in 2014.
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