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Killing Mister Watson - (Vintage International) by Peter Matthiessen (Paperback)

Killing Mister Watson - (Vintage International) by  Peter Matthiessen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Now in paperback, Killing Mister Watson is the bestselling novel proclaimed by critics throughout the country as Peter Matthiessen's masterpiece. Drawn from fragments of historical fact, it brilliantly depicts the fortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrpreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Peter Matthiessen</b> was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of <i>The Paris Review</i>. Besides <i>At Play in the Fields of the Lord</i>, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he published six other works of fiction, including <i>Far Tortuga</i> and <i>Killing Mister Watson</i>. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer resulted in numerous widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them <i>The Tree Where Man Was Born</i>, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and<i> The Snow Leopard</i>, which won it. Matthiessen died in 2014.

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