Peter Matthiessen
Author · 32 books
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.
Series
Books
Lost Man's River
1997
The Tree Where Man Was Born
1972
The Wind Birds
Shorebirds of North America
1973
Sand Rivers
1981
Far Tortuga
1975
Nine-Headed Dragon River
1986
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1965
African Silences
1991
The Snow Leopard
1978
Sal Si Puedes
Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
1970
The Birds of Heaven
Travels with Cranes
2001
Zen and the Writing Life
1999
End of the Earth
Voyages to Antarctica
2003
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
1983
Under the Mountain Wall
A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
1962
Blue Meridian
The Search for the Great White Shark
1971
Indian Country
1984
Tigers in the Snow
2000
Killing Mister Watson
1990
Race Rock
1969
The Peter Matthiessen Reader
2000
The Cloud Forest
A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
1961
Men's Lives
1986
Raditzer
1961
East of Lo Monthang
In the Land of Mustang
1995
Better Than Fiction
True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
2012
Shadow Country
2008
Baikal
Sacred Sea of Siberia
1992
Bone by Bone
1999
In Paradise
2014
Wildlife in America
1959
Courage for the Earth
Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson
2007
