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| Name: |
Peter Matthiessen | | Birth Date: |
May 22, 1927 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
Writer, Editor |
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 Biography of Peter Matthiessen
7,164 words, approx. 24 pages
 Peter Matthiessen is among a handful of American authors to be nominated for the National Book Award in both fiction and nonfiction--for the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) and the travel books The Tree Where Man Was Born (1972) and The... summary from source:
 Biography of Peter Matthiessen
5,044 words, approx. 17 pages
Peter Matthiessen was born on May 22, 1927, in New York City to Elizabeth Carey and Erard Matthiessen. "I am a New Yorker by birth, not inclination; I have never remained there very long. "My formative years left me unformed; despite kind family,... summary from source:
Biography of Peter Matthiessen
4,086 words, approx. 14 pages
While Peter Matthiessen's publications include several well-received novels, his reputation as a writer rests largely on his nonfiction nature books, which passionately yet scientifically document the often uneasy balance between human existence and...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Matthiessen, Peter
97 words, approx. 1 pages (born May 22, 1927, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. naturalist and writer. He attended Yale University and worked as a fisherman on Long Island before undertaking his extensive world travels. His nonfiction, much of it inspired by his career as a... summary from source:
 Peter Matthiessen Information
942 words, approx. 3 pages
Peter Matthiessen (born May 221927, in New York City) is an American naturalist and author of historical fiction and non-fiction. Matthiessen's work is known for its meticulous approach to research. He frequently focuses on American Indian issues and...
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 The Washington Post In the Spirit of Peter Matthiessen
08/12/1990: 1,903 words, approx. 6 pages "You didn't ask a man hard questions, not in the Ten Thousand Islands, not in them days," says a character in Peter Matthiessen's Killing Mister Watson, his long-awaited novel about a murder in the 1910 Florida outback. The same goes for Matthiessen himself.... summary from source:
The Boston Globe In His Latest, Peter Matthiessen Has `tigers' By The Tale
03/17/2000: 858 words, approx. 3 pages It's a sure-fire pairing: Peter Matthiessen, an author who leans toward the poetic, writing about tigers, animals that are the essence of poetry themselves. Further, "Tigers in the Snow" is a handsome volume that includes maps, historic artwork, and photos. The story is... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Philip Gourevitch Tells Paris Review He'll Skip Zimbabwe
3/27/2005: 1,521 words, approx. 5 pagesWhen the board of directors of The Paris Review named New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch as the new editor of the literary quarterly last week, a flicker of surprise rippled among the writers, editors and George Plimpton–admirers who had been anxiously awaiting the board's...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Peter Nabokov
1,744 words, approx. 6 pages
During the past eight years Peter Matthiessen has returned from his travels in Africa or Nepal to discover a hidden network of native American states of mind and places—his "Indian country." These are remote, impoverished, embattled enclaves within or on the borders of the official Indian reservations. There the representatives of what Matthiessen considers the true Indian way of life are still holding out—his "traditionals."… [The "traditionals"... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Page Stegner
1,094 words, approx. 4 pages
On a sultry morning in June 1975 two FBI agents assigned to the Pine Ridge Reservation near Rapid City, South Dakota, followed a station wagon onto Indian land somewhere between the little towns of Oglala and Pine Ridge, two traditional Lakota Sioux communities thought to be harboring American Indian Movement (AIM) agitators and generally hostile to outside law enforcement agencies…. [They] suddenly found themselves parked in a wood-lined field and fired upon from a nearby hill by an unspecified numb... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Alan M. Dershowitz
986 words, approx. 3 pages
"In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," is really about contemporary America and the way American law is seen through the eyes of American Indians. It is not the tale of a particular tribe or geographically centered culture but rather of a political group spanning the entire spectrum of tribes and geography—the American Indian Movement, or AIM, as it has come to be known. Mr. Matthiessen focuses on the deadly confrontation between AIM and the F.B.I., and specifically on the execution-style murd...
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