In an earlier post, I briefly mentioned True Nature, a new biography of Peter (The Snow Leopard) Matthiessen by Lance Richardson, which is due to be published in Britain on October 16 (Chatto & Windus) and in the US a couple of days earlier. The book has already featured on the excellent Literary Hub site, in a piece by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Megan Marshall, along with new biographies of Gertrude Stein and James Baldwin. Marshall writes: “Dare I confess I’ve never read a word by Peter Matthiessen? Still, I loved Lance Richardson’s True Nature, perhaps all the more because I was getting to know both Matthiessen and his writing from this terrifically absorbing chronicle… Maybe this is the supreme test of a good biography—can a reader with no previous interest get pulled in?”