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Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (died 2014)
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Peter Matthiessen
American novelist
Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction and fiction. He was also a prominent…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
The Paris Review
New York–based English-language literary magazine
The Paris Review is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, The Paris Review published new works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)