Author

Books by Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014) was an American author and naturalist, and the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both fiction and nonfiction. He cofounded the Paris Review in 1953 and published more than thirty books, including the Watson trilogy of novels and the nonfiction works At Play in the Fields of the Lord and The Snow Leopard, which won the National Book Award in 1979. He was a student of Zen Buddhism from the early 1960s and was ordained as a Zen teacher in 1981. He died in Sagaponack, New York, at the age of 86.