Saturday, April 5, 2014

Writer-environmentalist Peter Matthiessen dies

FILE - Writer Peter Matthiessen stands in the yard of his house in Sagaponack, N.Y. in this Oct. 28, 2004 file photo. Matthiessen, award-winning author of more than thirty books, world-renowned naturalist, explorer, Buddhist teacher, and political activist, died Saturday, April 5, 2014 after an illness of some months,according to his publisher Geoff Kloske of Riverhead Books. He was 86. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Matthiessen, a rich man's son who spurned a life of ease in favor of physical and spiritual challenges and produced such acclaimed works as "The Snow Leopard" and "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," died Saturday. He was 86.








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