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 · 98,555 ratings · 14,047 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Dog Stars 3.92 avg rating — 51,889 ratings — published 2012 — 42 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 3.78 avg rating — 12,594 ratings — published 2014 — 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 3.85 avg rating — 21,728 ratings — published 2019 — 20 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) 3.75 avg rating — 9,385 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave 3.80 avg rating — 1,363 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 3.97 avg rating — 696 ratings — published 2007 — 15 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 3.53 avg rating — 562 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 Orchard 3.56 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 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 3.53 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

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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

127 likes

“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

103 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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Polls

October BoTM Side Read Nominations ~ Final Poll

Daisy Jones & The Six

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

14 votes, 33.3%

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

by Kim Michele Richardson

10 votes, 23.8%

The River

by Peter Heller

8 votes, 19.0%

The Girls in the Garden

by Lisa Jewell

4 votes, 9.5%

The Stationery Shop

by Marjan Kamali

4 votes, 9.5%

The Keeper of Lost Things

by Ruth Hogan

2 votes, 4.8%

42 total votes

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