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'Peter Hessler' is an American writer and journalist. He is currently the Beijing correspondent for ''The New Yorker'' and a contributor to ''National Geographic''. He has previously written for the ''Atlantic Monthly'', the ''New York Times'', the ''Boston Globe'', the ''Wall Street Journal'', and other American newspapers and magazines. He is best known for his two books on China: ''River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze'' (2001), a Kiriyama Prize-winning book about his experiences in two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English in China, and ''Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present'' (2006), a collection of journalistic stories he wrote living in Beijing. His stories are about ordinary people's lives in China, and are not politically themed, but his books are not available in China.
Peter Hessler grew up in Columbia, Missouri. His father was a sociology professor at the University of Missouri, and his mother teaches history at Columbia College. He became interested in literature and writing while in high school. He went on to study English and creative writing at Princeton University, where, during his junior year, he took John McPhee's famed writing seminar. Hessler graduated in 1992 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study English language and literature at the University of Oxford. In 1996, he joined the Peace Corps and spent the next two years teaching English at a local college in Fuling, China. Since 1999, he has lived in Beijing as a freelance writer.
Peter Hessler's Chinese name is "He Wei(Ho Wei)," or 何伟.

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★ River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.), , Peter, Hessler, Harper Perennial, , ISBN 0-0608-5502-9

★ Peter Hessler on Rolf Pott's Vagabonding

★ "Oracle Bones" - Peter Hessler speaking at the Boston Athenaeum

External Links

★ Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Peter Hessler on Tech Nation

★ Voices - Peter Hessler in China

★ "Two Years on the Yangtze" - Peter Hessler speaks at Google

★ 'Oracle Bones' by Peter Hessler - Sunday Book Review

★ Time's Asian Journey

★ Author Page - Peter Hessler

★ Talking with Peter Hessler