Peter Hessler grew up in Columbia, Missouri. After graduating from Princeton with a degree in Creative Writing, he was awarded a scholarship to Oxford University to study Literature. He began to travel extensively while at Oxford and after obtaining his degree he joined the Peace Corps and returned to China. His experiences teaching in the remote town of Fuling are chronicled in his remarkable first book, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze.
Hessler today still lives in China, where he is the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker Magazine, and also contributes to National Geographic. His new book,Oracle Bones, is an intimate and epic portrait of China as it opens its doors to the 21st century. According to Publisher's Weekly, "There's little information available in China, we learn, but Hessler gets the stories that no one talks about and delivers them in a personal study that informs, entertains and mesmerizes. Everyone in the Western world should read this book."
•River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2001)
•Oracle Bones:
A Journey Between China's Past and Present (2006)
