Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Peter Matthiessen
Born: May 22, 1927
Died: April 5, 2014 (aged 86)
Bio: Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer and CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he was the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both fiction and nonfiction.
Known for:
- The Snow Leopard (1978)
- Shadow Country (2008)
- Far Tortuga (1975)
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965)
- In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983)