The Book, Cat, & Cat Book Lovers Almanac

of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

May 22, 2014

May 22, 1927

Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 to April 5, 2914) cannot be summed up in handy terms. This CIA operative and novelist, thinker and adventurer, writer and explorer, naturalist and historian, will be the subject of biographies in the near future. Such books may well miss an important note: that the author of Wildlife in America (1959) and The Snow Leopard (1978) was an advertisement for a certain kind of American affluence.
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