Anne Matthews is a college

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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

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finalist in

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. ''Deep Creek'', written with William Howarth under the joint

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"Dana Hand", was selected by '' The Washington Post'' as one of the best

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of 2010. Matthews is also the author of ''Bright College Years: Inside the American College Today'', and ''Wild Nights: Nature Returns to the City''. Matthews served on the Library of America editorial board for the two-volume collection ''Reporting World War II,'' and she is a contributing editor for '' The American Scholar''. She has served on the faculties of Princeton,

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, and New York University, and she was the first woman to direct th
Princeton Writing Program
Her various articles and reviews have appeared in '' The New York Times'', ''

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'', '' Orion'', '' Preservation'', and '' The Best American Science and Nature Writing''.

References

External links

* * '' The New York Times''
"Bright College Years: Inside the American College Today"
* '' The Washington Post''
Book World: Carolyn See Reviews "Deep Creek" by Dana Hand.
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