Saw CIA job as “free trip to Paris” Peter Matthiessen,  86,  died on April 5,  2014 at his home in Sagaponack, New York,  after a year-long struggle with leukemia. Raised in Manhattan,  in the same building as another later famous author,  George Plimpton,  who was two months older,  Matthiessen served in the U.S. Navy as […]