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Lance Richardson

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Writer. Australian/American. TRUE NATURE, my biography of Peter Matthiessen, out October 2025. Faculty in the Bennington MFA in Writing program. He/him. www.lancenrichardson.com

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 28d

Book tour time! Excited to be hitting the road this fall to talk about Matthiessen and TRUE NATURE with these incredible people. Ticket links and full details at lancenrichardson.com/events. ❄️🐆

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1h

This is tonight!

NYPL in Manhattan.

True Nature: Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson

Tickets for True Nature: Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson in New York from NYPL. The author of the first biography of Peter Matthiessen discusses the trailblazing novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi...

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1h

Briefly! Pops up in Ch 24.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 2h

I hope so too!

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks Patrick!

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 3h

Eight years ago, I drove to Sag Harbor and sat down for tea with Maria Matthiessen, telling her I wanted to write a book about her late husband, Peter. She warned me against it: a Sisyphean task! I pushed on anyway. (Maria was right.) And today, miraculously, is publication day for TRUE NATURE.

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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 5h

I spoke with Lance Richardson about his massive biography of Peter Matthiessen, "True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen." Listen to the pod on your favorite app or on the web using the link below. @lancerichardson.bsky.social

Lance Richardson on Peter Matthiessen & "The Snow Leopard"

Lance Richardson discusses "The Snow Leopard," Peter Matthiessen's complicated personal life, and the challenges of writing biography.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 20h

Tomorrow night!

True Nature: Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 1d

A delicious read, this book. DC friends - please come see Lance and I discuss it at @politicsprose.bsky.social Saturday, 11/1 at 3 pm.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

And a starred review in Publishers Weekly.

"Richardson writes movingly of the melding of ecology and divinity in Matthiessen’s literary work, and of his years of activism. The result is a touching, unsparing, and fully rendered portrait of a complex figure of 20th-century literature."

True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen by Lance Richardson

In this probing biography, journalist Richardson (House of Nutter) combs through the life of a towering literary figure best kno...

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Megan!

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Reviewed in The New Yorker.

Peter Matthiessen Travelled the World, Trying to Escape Himself

He was a spy, a crusader, an obsessive advocate for neglected people and places—yet his work was shaped, too, by an inner crisis.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

And one more tonight.

"This is a brilliant biography, bristling with ground-clearing primary-source research, filled with every findable fact about this writer, and, in an added twist as rare as it’s welcome, written with serious narrative flair."

True Nature by Lance Richardson — Open Letters Review

A brilliant new biography of the legendary 20th-century author

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 2d

One of the signature actresses of her or any era, and a woman who paved a path most Hollywood actresses -haven't- followed: dressing to express joy and a sense of self. On Diane Keaton: time.com/7325208/dian...

The Astonishing Versatility of Diane Keaton

Keaton, who died at 79, is often remembered for her comedic performance in Annie Hall, but she did so much more throughout her career.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Oh gosh, I didn’t know he died. A month ago! Sad news. He was very generous when we spoke.

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhh in that case the subject matter does not surprise me, given JM’s own interests.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

It was a fixation. What year?

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really excellent.

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Matt!

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Early review (two days early, anyway) in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

"Beautifully written, insightful, and engaging, 'True Nature' is a tour de force depiction of a charismatic, restless, self-absorbed, immensely talented literary lion."