Peter Matthiessen in 2008
Peter Matthiessen (Manhattan, May 22, 1927 - Sagaponack, Suffolk County (New York) April 5, 2014) was an American writer of historical fiction and non-fiction. He was born in New York.
The work of Matthiessen is known for its in-depth research. Often he takes the American Indians and episodes from American history as a subject. An example is his detailed study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.
For The Snow Leopard, Matthiessen received the National Book Award in the Contemporary Thought category in 1979. His novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord, about a US missionary at a South American tribe, was filmed in 1991.
More recently Matthiessen based his trilogy - Killing Mr. Watson, Lost Man's River and Bone at Bone on the Murder of Plantation Holder Edgar J. Watson in Florida in 1910. The entire Shadow Country trilogy, in which previous books have been shortened, won the National Book Award for fiction in 2008. < / p>
Matthiessen became Zen practitioner and later Buddhist priest. He lived in Sagaponack, New York.
He died at the age of 86 in a hospital on Long Island. Bibliography Fiction Non-fiction
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