{{short description|College lecturer and environmental author}} {{Infobox writer | name = Anne Matthews | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = | nationality = American | period = | genre = Environmental | subject = Environmental Author | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | portaldisp = }} '''Anne Matthews''' is a college lecturer and author of articles and books with environmental and academic themes. Her book, ''Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains'' was a 1993 Pulitzer Prize finalist in nonfiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/General-Nonfiction|title=Pulitzer Prizes: General Nonfiction|accessdate=December 7, 2014}}</ref> ''Deep Creek'', written with William Howarth under the joint pen name "Dana Hand", was selected by ''The Washington Post'' as one of the best novels of 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dana-hand.com/authors.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119174640/http://www.dana-hand.com/authors.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 19, 2010|title=Authors - Dana Hand|author=Dana Hand|work=dana-hand.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121003240.html|title=The best novels of 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 17, 2010|accessdate=December 7, 2014}}</ref> Matthews is also the author of ''Bright College Years: Inside the American College Today'',<ref>{{cite book|title=Bright College Years|publisher=University of Chicago Press |url=http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo3626768.html}}</ref> and ''Wild Nights: Nature Returns to the City''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.terrain.org/reviews/15/pirie.htm|title=Anne Matthews' Wild Nights: Nature Returns to the City : Reviewed by Ken Pirie : Terrain.org|work=Terrain.org}}</ref>
Matthews served on the Library of America editorial board for the two-volume collection ''Reporting World War II,'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=115|title=Library of America|work=loa.org}}</ref> and she is a contributing editor for ''The American Scholar''. She has served on the faculties of Princeton, Columbia, and New York University, and she was the first woman to direct the [https://writing.princeton.edu/ Princeton Writing Program]. Her various articles and reviews have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Outside'', ''Orion'', ''Preservation'', and ''The Best American Science and Nature Writing''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://qcpages.qc.edu/nnyn/conference/speakers.html|title=Nature and New York Conference|work=qc.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theamericanscholar.org/forgiveness/|title=The American Scholar: Forgiveness - Anne Matthews|work=theamericanscholar.org|date=December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiebound.org/author-interviews/matthewsanne|title=Anne Matthews Interview|work=indiebound.org}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{C-SPAN|48727}} * ''The New York Times'' "[https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/20/reviews/970420.20macfart.html "Bright College Years: Inside the American College Today"] * ''The Washington Post'' "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022505322.html Book World: Carolyn See Reviews "Deep Creek" by Dana Hand.]" [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022505322.html Friday, Feb 26, 2010.]
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