Writer and Environmentalist Peter Matthiessen Dead At 86

++Next Tuesday will be published Peter Matthiessen's last book-- about his experiences at Auschwitz. 

++One of my favorite writers,I re-read his Shadow Country, the trilogy about Mr. Watson and the Everglades, every year. His Far Tortuga is now a well-worn paperback I take over every overseas trip.From In The Fields of Our Lord to his classic The Snow Leopard, his prose reflected the idea of frontiers which now face degradation by man.

++He died after a lingering bout with leukemia at his home in Sag Harbor, Long Island. The 86-year old author was born to wealth and helped found The Paris Review.