Matthiessen

American  

[math-uh-suhn] / ˈmæθ ə sən /

noun

1. Peter, 1927–2014, U.S. novelist and travel writer.

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Example Sentences

In a letter to Peter Matthiessen in 1970, one of many damningly perceptive missives that he received from the women in his life, his second wife, Deborah Love, wrote, “you seem a man in 1000 pieces, running after each one.”

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Matthiessen’s many masks are on display in “True Nature,” a deeply researched and artfully executed biography by Lance Richardson.

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Matthiessen was this way, too, and his dizzying life and brilliantly varied work were the paradoxical outcomes of what was, as he put it, his “dream of simplicity.”

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Mr. Richardson tries not to dwell on the subject, but it’s clear that Matthiessen possessed a Paul Newman-esque beauty, which he found both burdensome and advantageous.

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But then again, everything about Matthiessen can seem charmed.

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