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Bio

(1927-2014) Writer. Peter Matthiessen was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Sagaponack, New York.

Full Name

Peter Matthiessen

Locations

Suffolk

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

As a child, Mr. Matthiessen spent time in his family's country home on Fishers Island, New York.

1927

BIRTH

Peter Matthiessen was born in and as a child lived in Manhattan, New York, on May 22, 1927.

1955

LITWORK

Partisans
Viking Adult.
0670540803 / 978-0670540808
Novel.

1961

LITWORK

The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle Of The South American Wilderness
Viking Press
1111720169 / 978-1111720162
Nonfiction.

1965

LITWORK

At Play In the Fields Of The Lord
Random House.

Novel.

1975

LITWORK

Far Tortuga
Random House.
039449461X / 978-0394494616
Novel.

1978

LITWORK

The Snow Leopard
Viking Press.
0670653748 / 978-0670653744
Nonfiction.

1986

LITWORK

Men's Lives
Rock Foundation.

Nonfiction.

1990

LITWORK

Killing Mister Watson
Random House.
0394554000 / 978-0394554006
Novel.

1998

LITWORK

Lost Man's River
Harvill Press.
1860464246 / 978-1860464249
Novel.

1999

LITWORK

Bone By Bone
Harvill Press.
1860466672 / 978-1860466670
Novel.

2014

DEATH

Peter Matthiessen died at his home in Sagaponack, New York, on April 5, 2014.

2014

LITWORK

In Paradise
Riverhead Books.
1594633177 / 978-1594633171
Novel.

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