Peter Matthiessen
to receive the
2013 Henry David Thoreau Prize
for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing
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"In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline.
But in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience."
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Peter Matthiessen is a three-time National Book Award-winning American novelist,
non-fiction writer and prominent environmental activist.
''... brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature. A bravura performance, at once history, fiction, and myth -- as well as the capstone to the career of one of the most admired and admirable writers of our time.''
--New York Review of Books
PEN New England's
Henry David Thoreau Prize
Literary Excellence in Nature Writing
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