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Peter Matthiessen

1927 - 2014

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Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). He was also a prominent environmental activist. Matthiessen's 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Matthiessen is the 6,131st most popular writer (down from 6,070th in 2019), the 10,688th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,054th in 2019) and the 779th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Peter Matthiessen ranks 6,131 out of 7,302. Before him are Tierno Monénembo, M. Scott Peck, James Herbert, Claude Esteban, Dolores Redondo, and John of Worcester. After him are Zoé Valdés, Amory Lovins, Joan Lindsay, Julio Llamazares, William Inge, and Elizabeth F. Ellet.

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Among people born in 1927, Peter Matthiessen ranks 431. Before him are Red Mitchell, Yury Kazakov, Jiří Pešek, Ambrus Nagy, Hugo Dollheiser, and Beatrice Ohanessian. After him are Attila Dargay, Rolf Landauer, Giorgio Capitani, Kirti Nidhi Bista, Anjali Devi, and Jacques Bergerac. Among people deceased in 2014, Peter Matthiessen ranks 478. Before him are Annemarie Buchner, Çolpan İlhan, Mae Young, Ghiță Licu, Ralph Giordano, and Howard Baker. After him are Patrice Wymore, Uroš Marović, Jeremiah Denton, Wayne Static, Stanisław Barańczak, and Álex Angulo.

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Among people born in United States, Peter Matthiessen ranks 10,690 out of 20,380. Before him are Madge Kennedy (1891), Bruce Schneier (1963), Joseph Kosinski (1974), Nelson Riddle (1921), Dorothy Hamill (1956), and Mike Fisher (1943). After him are Cheryl Hines (1965), Patrice Wymore (1926), David Garrison (1952), Elaine de Kooning (1918), Ben Cardin (1943), and Maud Barger-Wallach (1870).

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Among writers born in United States, Peter Matthiessen ranks 779. Before him are Kevin Kelly (1952), Ernest Lehman (1915), Michael Lewis (1960), Kathryn Stockett (1969), Deborah Harkness (1965), and M. Scott Peck (1936). After him are Amory Lovins (1947), William Inge (1913), Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818), George Saunders (1958), Tim LaHaye (1926), and Mark Manson (1984).

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