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Peter Heller


Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
February 13, 1959

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Literature & Fiction, Fiction Men's Adventure


There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.


Peter Heller holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adventure writer and longtime contributor to NPR, Heller is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek. He is also the author of several nonfiction books, including Kook, The Whale Warriors, and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

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Average rating: 3.84 · 199,791 ratings · 26,067 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors
The Dog Stars
3.95 avg rating — 71,842 ratings — published 2012
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The River
3.85 avg rating — 46,258 ratings — published 2019 — 34 editions
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The Guide
3.62 avg rating — 21,482 ratings — published 2021 — 24 editions
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The Painter
3.83 avg rating — 16,866 ratings — published 2014 — 17 editions
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The Last Ranger
3.78 avg rating — 10,364 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions
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Burn
3.59 avg rating — 10,552 ratings — published 2024 — 11 editions
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Kook: What Surfing Taught M...
3.82 avg rating — 2,225 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
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The Orchard: A Novel
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“Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
tags: love
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“He's getting old. I don't count the years. I don't multiply by seven. They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
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“Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
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