Peter Matthiessen

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Born	May 22, 1927 (age 97) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors	National Book Award
Notable Works	“At Play in the Fields of the Lord” • “Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark” • “Bone by Bone” • “Far Tortuga” • “In Paradise” • “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse” • “Race Rock” • “Shadow Country” • “The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness” • “The Snow Leopard” • “Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age” • “Wildlife in America”

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