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 [...]
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