Zen and the Writing Life
1999
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In this text, Matthiessen addresses such questions as: can meditation be used to broaden and clarify the writers visions?; and how do you cultivate a beginner's mind in daily observation and then capture the profound insights on the written page?
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Author
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.
