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Peter Matthiessen, author of The Snow Leopard, dies at 86

Written By Unknown on Sunday, April 6, 2014 | 8:43 AM

Writer co-founded The Paris Review

Last novel, In Paradise, to be published on Tuesday


Peter Matthiessen, the American author who co-founded The Paris Review and won awards for books such as The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, died on Saturday at the age of 86.


His publisher, Geoff Kloske, said Matthiessen had been ill for some months with leukaemia. Matthiessen died at a hospital near his home in Long Island, New York.


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