Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing Correspondent from 2000 to 2007. He is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town (HarperCollins, 2001), which won the Kiriyama Book Prize; Oracle Bones (HarperCollins, 2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Country Driving (HarperCollins, 2010). His most recent book is Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West (HarperCollins, 2013).
Hessler won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting, and he was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. He lives in Cairo, Egypt.