Novelist, Naturalist (22-May-1927 — 5-Apr-2014)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

William Dowie. Peter Matthiessen. Twayne. 1991. 154pp.

D. Nicholas. Peter Matthiessen: A Bibliography, 1951-1979. Orirana Press. 1980. 63pp.

William H. Roberson. Peter Matthiessen: An Annotated Bibliography. McFarland. 2001. 200pp.

PAPERS

1. Peter Matthiessen Papers
   Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

ARTICLES

1. Peter Matthiessen’s Homegoing
   by Jeff Himmelman. The New York Times Magazine, 3-Apr-2014.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

6. New York Times Obituary [link]

7. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

8. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.159)

9. Contemporary Novelists (pp.852-54)

10. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.481)

11. World Authors 1950-1970 (pp.956-58)

12. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.663)

13. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.480)

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