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True Nature

The Lives of Peter Matthiessen

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True Nature

著者： Lance Richardson
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Discover the many lives of Peter Matthiessen – writer, naturalist, activist, CIA agent, Zen master – in this kaleidoscopic biography of an American literary giant.

Author of The Snow Leopard, co-founder of the Paris Review and the only writer to have ever won the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction, Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure of twentieth-century American literature. He was also an undercover agent for the fledgling CIA; an environmental activist; an advocate for Native American rights; friends with the likes of Truman Capote and William Styron; and a daring explorer who visited every continent on Earth.

Across these many lives, Matthiessen was always searching for what he called his ‘true nature’, and this spiritual quest ultimately led him to the highest ranks of Zen.

Readers and critics have struggled to reconcile Matthiessen’s extraordinarily varied achievements and literary output. Now, for the first time, drawing on rich primary sources and hundreds of interviews, acclaimed biographer Lance Richardson pulls together the seemingly disparate threads of Matthiessen’s story. With page-turning immediacy, Richardson illuminates how the writer’s uncanny gifts enabled him to sense connections between ecological decline, racism and labour exploitation – to express, eloquently and presciently, that ‘in a damaged human habitat, all problems merge’.

'Magnificent' ROBERT MACFARLANE
'Fascinating' KATHERINE MAY
'Irresistible' KATHERINE BUCKNELL
‘Perceptive and consistently readable’ CAL FLYN

© Lance Richardson 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

 20世紀 仏教 作家 哲学 政治・行動主義 文化・地域 活動家 禅宗 芸術・文学 近代

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True Nature is a magnificent achievement: an immense work of scholarship, synthesis and empathy, written throughout with verve and lucidity, which illuminates one of the most fascinating writerly lives of the past century (ROBERT MACFARLANE)
A fascinating biography of a writer whose story aches to be told (KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering)
An irresistible portrait... Some of Matthiessen’s books read like an elegy to the planet, and this biography reads like an elegy to the last of the cool WASP men. It’s quite a story (KATHERINE BUCKNELL, author of Christopher Isherwood Inside Out)
A remarkable achievement... Perceptive and consistently readable (CAL FLYN, author of Islands of Abandonment)
I can't imagine that a fairer, better researched, more elegant biography will come out this year (BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag)
Naturalist, novelist, Yeti-hunter, CIA agent—Peter Matthiessen led an exceptional life, and Lance Richardson does a wonderful job capturing it in all its complexity. True Nature is generous and sensitive, but at the same time clear-eyed about its outsized subject (ELIZABETH KOLBERT, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction)
Comprehensive, deeply researched and lucidly written, this is the definitive biography of a complicated, fascinating and sometimes exasperating man (ADAM SISMAN, author of The Secret Life of John Le Carre)
There is adventure, beauty, compassion, and deep insight on nearly every page. Compellingly crafted, doggedly researched, and elegantly written, True Nature is a true masterpiece of literary biography (HEATHER CLARK, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath)
A comprehensive, compelling life of a man of many parts (Kirkus)
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