Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist and naturalist, notably the author of The Snow Leopard, a book about nature and travel. He co-founded The Paris Review and is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction and fiction, the latter for Shadow Country. He also wrote on American Indian history in In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, and was a zen teacher. He died in 2014, three days before his final novel, In Paradise, was published.