name: Peter Matthiessen
birth_date: 1927-05-22 00:00:00
death_date: 2014-04-05 00:00:00
genres: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
avg_rating: 4.0
ratings_count: 50163
about: Peter Matthiessen is the author of more than thirty books and the only writer to win the National Book Award for both non-fiction (The Snow Leopard, in two categories, in 1979 and 1980) and fiction (Shadow Country, in 2008). A co-founder of The Paris Review and a world-renowned naturalist, explorer and activist, he died in April 2014.