Books by Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler is an American writer and journalist. He has written three books about China and a recent collection of reportage, Strange Stones. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting, and in 2011 received a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. He is currently based in Cairo, and is a staff writer at the New Yorker
“I love this book for many reasons. Firstly because he’s a beautiful writer and he gives you this wonderful sense of what it’s like to actually be there: the landscape and the people and the hustle and bustle, the pollution and the way the city’s built in the mountains with stairs going up and down, and the porters to carry your stuff that they call ‘stick-stick men’.” Read more...
The best books on Foreign Memoirs
Jennifer Steil, Foreign Correspondent
Interviews with Peter Hessler
The Best Narrative Nonfiction, recommended by Peter Hessler
Writer and journalist Peter Hessler selects five books, from Haight Ashbury to a fifth grade classroom, which show how nonfiction can bring true stories to life through literary techniques. He chooses the best of narrative nonfiction.
Interviews where books by Peter Hessler were recommended
The best books on Foreign Memoirs, recommended by Jennifer Steil
The first five books in the genre, as picked by a writer, journalist and actor who wrote a memoir about running a newspaper in Yemen.
