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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


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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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Average rating: 3.85 · 166,713 ratings · 22,125 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors
The Dog Stars
3.95 avg rating — 65,328 ratings — published 2012 — 48 editions
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The River
3.85 avg rating — 40,929 ratings — published 2019
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The Guide
3.62 avg rating — 17,898 ratings — published 2021 — 23 editions
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The Painter
3.82 avg rating — 15,745 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions
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The Last Ranger
3.82 avg rating — 6,723 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions
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Kook: What Surfing Taught M...
3.81 avg rating — 2,062 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
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The Orchard
4.13 avg rating — 1,341 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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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
tags: grief, life, pain
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