“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen. By Dwight Garner What was I trying to escape by making this dangerous trek? By John Kaag Peter ...

Photograph courtesy of Peter Matthiessen. Lance Richardson’s door-stopper biography, True Nature, the Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, is the first biography written about him, though a documentary ...

In interviews, Peter Matthiessen always had to answer, in his correct, patrician tones, a question seldom put to other writers: Just what kind of writer, exactly, are you? The confusion was ...

In his first nonfiction book, Matthiessen staked out the territory he would revisit the rest of his life — the destruction of nature and natural peoples at the hands of mankind. Wilderness in America, ...

This is FRESH AIR. The publication of Peter Matthiessen's final novel "In Paradise" is coinciding with his obituary. He died Saturday at the age of 86. We're going to listen back to an excerpt of my ...

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In Paradise tells the story of a group of men and women come together for a weeklong meditation retreat at the site of a World War II concentration camp, and the grief, rage, bewildering transports, ...

Author Peter Matthiessen, who used fiction and nonfiction to explore how man relates to nature, has died at 86. The revered naturalist and... Author Peter Matthiessen, who used fiction and nonfiction ...