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Active 1960–present · Awards: John Burroughs Medal, Helmerich Award, Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Book Award, National Book Award, Heinz Award
Peter Matthiessen 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…