Peter Matthiessen
American novelist and naturalist whose Shadow Country, a rewriting of his Watson trilogy, won the National Book Award in 2008. His fiction and nonfiction share a deep engagement with the natural world and human injustice. He was a founding editor of The Paris Review.
Works
- Shadow CountryVast novel of frontier violence and territorial conflict set in Florida swamplands
- Far TortugaExperimental novel about Caribbean turtle fishermen told through sparse, fragmented prose
- At Play in the Fields of the LordEpic narrative of missionaries and indigenous encounters in South American jungle
- The Tree Where Man Was BornTravel narrative reflecting on African landscapes, wildlife, and human relationship with nature
- The Snow LeopardSpiritual journey memoir of Himalayan pilgrimage pursuing elusive snow leopard