The writer of “The Snow Leopard” and “At Play in the Fields of the Lord” wrote of nature’s austere simplicity. The man himself was anything but simple.

But Matthiessen was hung up on what he saw as the deficiencies of his own. He was convinced Betty hadn’t loved him as much as she’d loved her other two children — something she eventually admitted was ...

Peter Corriston is the artist responsible for the album cover artwork for Physical Grafitti by Led Zeppelin. He has also worked on various cover artworks for The Rolling Stones, imcluding Some Girls.