Peter Heller

Born

in New York City, New York, The United States

February 13, 1959

Website

http://www.peterheller.net/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Fiction Men's Adventure

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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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Peter Heller’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 65,563 ratings · 9,299 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Dog Stars 3.91 avg rating — 45,687 ratings — published 2012 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Painter 3.77 avg rating — 11,195 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Celine by Peter Heller, Kimberley Farr (Narrator) 3.74 avg rating — 6,280 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave 3.77 avg rating — 1,173 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals 3.95 avg rating — 598 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River 3.50 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River 4.14 avg rating — 116 ratings — expected publication 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Set Free in China: Sojourns on the Edge 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tyson: In and Out of the Ring 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outside Magazine's Urban Adventure: Denver/Boulder it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Peter Heller

“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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“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

tags: grief, life, pain

96 likes

“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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2018 November's Member's Choice

Please note that book covers may not be as shown in the poll. Covers vary on different editions. Please go by the title and author, not the book cover. Thanks

I Found You by Lisa Jewell

13 votes, 22.4%

Celine by Peter Heller

11 votes, 19.0%

The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison

The Butterfly Garden (The Collector #1) by Dot Hutchison

9 votes, 15.5%

There There]

9 votes, 15.5%

This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

8 votes, 13.8%

Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher

6 votes, 10.3%

The Jazz Palace by Mary Morris

2 votes, 3.4%

58 total votes

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