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Peter Heller is a longtime contributor to NPR, and a contributing editor at Outside Magazine, Men's Journal, and National Geographic Adventure Peter Heller is a longtime contributor to NPR, and a contributing editor at Outside Magazine, Men's Journal, and National Geographic Adventure. 

He is an award winning adventure writer and the author of several books of literary nonfiction.  He lives in Denver. Heller was born and raised in New York.

Hellers debut novel, The Dog Stars, will be published by Knopf in August, 2012. It will also be published by Headline Review in Great Britain and Australia, and Actes Sud in France.
 


Genres: Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
August 2024

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Novels
   The Dog Stars (2012)
   The Painter (2014)
   Celine (2017)
   The River (2019)
   The Orchard (2019)
   The Guide (2021)
   The Last Ranger (2023)
   Burn (2024)
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Award nominations
2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The River
2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (nominee) : The Painter
2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : The Dog Stars


Peter Heller recommends
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The Ski Jumpers (2022)
Peter Geye
"The Ski Jumpers is a remarkable story about love: between two brothers, and between a father and son. But it's also about the intense love of place, and a time in three lives when gravity had less hold and a spirit might fly. Peter Geye brilliantly captures the physicality of our connection to a landscape and to the moments when--despite incalculable loss--we bring the best of ourselves."
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Dark August (2020)
(Gus Monet, book 1)
Katie Tallo
"What elevates Tallo's galloping story is the freshness of the writing, and the deep explorations of character. An imaginative thriller--as much about family, loss, greed, and a young woman's attempt to find a place in the world, as it is about solving a long-buried mystery."
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American War (2017)
Omar El Akkad
"Omar El Akkad has created an American future that is both terrifying and plausible."

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