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Article: Man writing: the Watson Trilogy: Peter Matthiessen in archive.(Critical Essay)
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- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
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- June 22, 2004
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Peter Matthiessen is a naturalist, political activist, travel writer and novelist whose thirty-plus books and broadsides range from Shore Birds of North America (1967) to his defense of Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983); from his spiritual quest in The Snow Leopard (1978) to the portrait of commercial ocean haul seiners in Men's Lives (1986). A cofounder of the Paris Review with Harold Hume, he is the author of nearly two hundred articles and essays, two dozen short stories and eight novels, the last three of which--Killing Mister Watson (1990), Lost Man's River (1997) and Bone by Bone (1999)--imaginatively reconstruct ...
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Article: In the Spirit of Peter Matthiessen
The Washington Post;
August 12, 1990 ;
700+ words
... ... didn't ask a man hard questions, not in the Ten Thousand Islands, not in them days," says a character in Peter Matthiessen's Killing Mister Watson, his long-awaited novel about a murder in the 1910 Florida outback. The same goes ...
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