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Pete Nelson lives with his wife and son in Westchester, New York. He got his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1979 and has written both fiction and non-fiction for magazines, including Harpers, Playboy, Esquire, MS, Outside, The Iowa Review, National Wildlife, Glamour, Redbook. He was a columnist for Mademoiselle and a staff writer for LIVE Magazine, covering various live events including horse pulls, music festivals, dog shows, accordion camps and arm wrestling championships. Recently he was a contributing editor and feature writer for Wondertime, a Disney parenting magazine.

He's published twelve young adult novels, including a six-book series about a girl named Sylvia Smith-Smith which earned him an Edgar Award nomina...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 1,210 ratings · 370 reviews · 21 distinct works

	I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story 3.66 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Pete Nelson, Hunter Scott (Preface) 3.86 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Treehouses of the World by Pete Nelson, Radek Kurzaj (Photographs) 4.33 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	New Treehouses of the World 4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Christmas List 3.42 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ich lass dich nicht allein 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Tough Love: A Novelization 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Marvin Gaye 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984	My rating:
	Waking Hours by Lis Wiehl (Goodreads Author), Pete Nelson 3.80 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	My rating:
	That Others May Live: The True Story of the PJs, the Real Life Heroes of the Perfect Storm by Jack Brehm, Pete Nelson 3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“I used to think I knew all the answers. Then I thought I knew maybe a few of the answers. Now I'm not even sure I understand the questions. Nobody knows anything.”
― Pete Nelson, I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story

tags: life-experience , questions-and-answers

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“Individual heart cells beat at their own rate when separated from one another, a phenomenon easily observed beneath a microscope. It has long been known that when they are pushed together, they will synchronize their pulses. Recent studies have shown, however, that heart cells begin to synchronize slightly before they touch. It is not known how they signal across this distance. Some scientists speculate that this method of communication may be able to cross great distances and may explain how social animals bond, or how pets seem to sense when their masters are coming home, or even how people fall in love, one heart calling to another.”
― Pete Nelson, I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story

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“No animal has a heart quite like a dog's”
― Pete Nelson, I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story

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