Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize, and Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting.
Books in order of publication:
River town: two years on the Yangtze. New York: HarperCollins – (2001)
Oracle bones: a journey between China’s past and present. New York: HarperCollins. – 2006
Country driving: a journey through China from farm to factory. New York: Harper. – 2010
Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West. New York: Harper. – (2013)
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution. New York: Penguin. – (2019)
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. New York: Penguin. – (2024)
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