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Peter Matthiessen
Sign in to saveAmerican novelist (1927–2014)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- May 22, 1927
- Died
- April 5, 2014
- Works
- 115
Top works
- At play in the fields of the Lord
- In the spirit of Crazy Horse
- Hráči na vinici Páně
- Tijgers in de sneeuw
- De sneeuwluipaard
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Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- On Meditation — Self2016
- Knight of Cups — Christopher2015
- Doc — Himself2008
- Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier — Self - Author, "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse"1991
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 40
- Total plays
- 177
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,895x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,192x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,720x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,303x
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Quotes
- “There’s a creation, a creating force. But whatever it is is in everything we see. It’s in that log, in that stone. It’s just the power. And I’ve had many experiences with it. Certain circumstances bring it out, which all the mystics know. That is part of our Zen training too. It’s called an "opening." … For a second, you see what the world is. It is a whole other way of seeing, which is horrible, terrifying, and extraordinary and a great blessing to have.”
- “Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. And this debasement of our vision, the retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.”
- “Every moment of life is to be lived calmly, mindfully, as if it were the last, to insure that the most is made of the precious human state — the only one in which enlightenment is possible. And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.”
- “In another life — this isn’t what I know, but how I feel — these mountains were my home; there is a rising of forgotten knowledge, like a spring from hidden aquifers under the earth. To glimpse one’s own true nature is a kind of homegoing, to a place East of the Sun, West of the Moon — the homegoing that needs no home, like that waterfall on the upper Suli Gad that turns to mist before touching the earth and rises once again into the sky.”
- “I am a writer. A fiction writer who also writes nonfiction on behalf of social and environmental causes or journals about expeditions to wild places. I have written more books of nonfiction because my fiction is an exploratory process — not laborious, merely long and slow and getting slower.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1927-05-22 ) May 22, 1927, New York City, U.S.
- Died
- April 5, 2014 (2014-04-05) (aged 86), Sagaponack, New York , U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer
- Language
- English
- Education
- Yale University ( BA )
- Period
- 1950–2014
- Genre
- Nature writing travel writing history novels
- Notable works
- The Snow Leopard Shadow Country
- Notable awards
- Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities (2000) National Book Award for Fiction (2008)
- Spouse
- Patsy Southgate ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1950 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1956 ) Deborah Love ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1963 ; died 1972 ) Maria Eckhart, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 )
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- 2014-04-05
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- date of birth
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- name in kana
- ピーター・マシーセン
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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). His fiction was adapted for film: the early story "Travelin' Man" was made into The Young One (1960) by Luis Buñuel and the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) into the 1991 film of the same name.