Peter Heller (Author)

Peter Heller (born February 13, 1959 in New York City ) is an American journalist and writer.

Life

Peter Heller grew up in New York and studied at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire . As a journalist, he worked for National Public Radio (NPR), Outside Magazine , Men's Journal and National Geographic Adventure . In book form he published, among other things, a report on the activities of the radical marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd Conservation Society , which was also published in German. In 2007 he was involved in the production of the film The Bay , which documented the slaughter of dolphins in the Japanese coastal town of Taiji . Heller has emerged as a novelist since 2012. His novels The Dog Stars and The River were published in German translation in 2013 and 2019. Heller lives in Denver , Colorado .

Works

• Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River , Rodale Books, 2004, ISBN 978-1579548728 .
• The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals , Free Press, 2007, ISBN 9781501193767 . German edition: We step in. The fight of Paul Watson against the whaling fleets of the world , Hamburg, mare, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86648-083-4 .
• Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave , The Free Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0743294201 .
• The Dog Stars , Knopf, 2012, ISBN 978-0307959942 . German edition: The end of the stars as Big Hig knew them , Cologne, Eichborn, 2013, ISBN 978-3847905196 .
• The Painter , Knopf, 2014, ISBN 978-0804170154 .
• Celine: A novel , Knopf, 2017, ISBN 978-1101973486 .
• The River: A novel , Knopf, 2019, ISBN 9780525521877 . German edition: Der Fluss , Munich, Verlag Nagel & Kimche, 2019, ISBN 978-3312011346 .

Web links

Peter Heller's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the review of Der Fluss in: Spiegel Online, August 22, 2019