peter matthiessen

A Conversation With Peter Matthiessen

Planning Ahead, Austin  Mon, 04/18/2011 - 10:35am

Peter Matthiessen is one of the most renowned and revered writers of our time. He has won the National Book Award twice - for The Snow Leopard and for Shadow Country.

Peter will be on stage with Victor Emanuel, who will ask him questions about his career, his travels, and the causes that have meant most to him.

Tickets are $30.

A portion of the proceeds will go to Travis Audubon. Tickets may be purchased online here: http://www.utexas.edu/ce/tcc/events/Audubon_Society/



 

Ransom holds papers of National Book Award winner

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Thu, 11/20/2008 - 3:34pm

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin holds the papers of Peter Matthiessen, winner of the 59th annual National Book Award.

Matthiessen won for "Shadow Country," a reworking of his trilogy released in the 1990s about the Florida sugarcane farmer and infamous murderer Edgar J.

Watson. In this edition, the three stories [...]