Best selling and award winning author/novelist Peter Heller joins Clifford Rames on Poetry Passages for a wonderful discussion about Tang Dynasty poetry and which poets/poems influence and inform his works of fiction. Peter also reveals new details about the upcoming film production of The Dog Stars, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Paul Mescal!
Peter Heller is an award winning fiction writer and the author of acclaimed novels The Dog Stars, The River, Celine, and The Last Ranger, among others. He is a longtime contributor to NPR, and a former contributing editor at Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure. An award winning adventure writer, he is the author of four books of literary nonfiction. Heller was born and raised in New York. He attended high school in Vermont and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. At the Iowa Writers Workshop he earned an MFA in both fiction and poetry, and was awarded the prestigious Michener Fellowship for his narrative poem The Psalms of Malvine. He is a passionate outdoorsman and lives with his wife in Colorado.
Heller’s debut novel, The Dog Stars, was published by Knopf in August, 2012. It was the Apple iBooks Novel of the Year, Hudson Booksellers top fiction pick of the Year, and an Atlantic Monthly and San Francisco Examiner Best Book of the Year. It was critically celebrated and a breakout bestseller, and has been published in TWENTY-SIX languages.
Heller’s latest novel, Burn, is out from Knopf in August, 2024.
To learn more about Peter, you may visit his website: www.peterhellerauthor.com