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Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer and CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he was a three-time National Book Award winner. He was also a prominent environmental activist. His nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably The Snow Leopard (1978) and American Indian issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983).

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rdfs:comment	Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer and CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he was a three-time National Book Award winner. He was also a prominent environmental activist. His nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably The Snow Leopard (1978) and American Indian issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983).
foaf:name	Matthiessen, Peter Peter Matthiessen
foaf:depiction
dc:description	American writer, environmentalist and Zen Buddhist priest
active years end year	2014-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
active years start year	1950-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
birth date	1927-05-22(xsd:dateTime)
birth place	City of New York State of New York
birth year	1927-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
death date	2014-04-05(xsd:dateTime)
death place	Sagaponack, New York State of New York
death year	2014-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
genre	dbpedia:History dbpedia:Nature_writing dbpedia:Novel dbpedia:Travel_literature
notable work	Shadow Country The Snow Leopard
thumbnail	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Matthiessen_photograph.jpg?width=300
is author of	Shadow Country African Silences The Snow Leopard At Play in the Fields of the Lord
is influenced of	Styron, William Clark, Jr.
is influenced by of	Carlson, Lee
is writer of	La Joven (The Young One) Fighting for Our Lives

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