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UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL

Peter Matthiessen

Also known as: PETER MATTHIESSEN, Matthiessen Peter

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Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer and CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he was a 2008 National Book Award winner. He was also a prominent environmental activist. His nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably The Snow Leopard (1978) and American Indian issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983). His fiction was adapted for film: the early story "Travelin' Man" was made into The Young One (1960) by Luis Buñuel and the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) into the 1991 film of the same name.

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ON an August day of 1968, returning home to Sagaponack, Long Island, after a seven-month absence in Africa, I was astonished by the presence in my driveway of three inscrutable small men who turned out to be Japanese Zen masters.

— from Nine-headed dragon river, 1986

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On the River Styx and Other Stories

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The Cloud Forest

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"Edited by two of the field's most prominent researchers, this best-selling reader on men and masculinity contains the most current articles available. Organized around themes that define masculinity, this reader takes a life-course perspective, using the idea that men (as well as women) are 'gendered' and that this gendering process is a central experience for men. Twenty-four readings are new to this edition. New topics include: being a male, pro-feminist college instructor; the meaning of being labeled a 'fag;' growing up as a 'sissy' (gender non-conforming) boy; ritualized homosexual behavior among the 'Trafs, ' a subculture of the Nacirema; sexual assault in military academies; male cheerleaders; drag queens; fathering in modern American Society; images of masculinity in beer and liquor ads; sexuality and sports talk radio; and the culture of aggression and violence among ice hockey players."--Jacket.

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