Peter Heller is the national best-selling author of 11 books – four nonfiction and seven fiction, including 2023’s The Last Ranger and 2024’s Burn. His novel The Painter won the prestigious Reading the West Book Award. An award-winning adventure writer and a longtime contributor to NPR, Heller is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, Men’s Journal and National Geographic Adventure. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in poetry and fiction.

Featured title: Burn

Website: https://www.peterhellerauthor.com/

PETER’S EVENTS:

• Friday, Sept. 20 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings
• Friday, Sept. 20 @ 6:00 p.m. – Rivers, Mountains, and the Alchemy of Storytelling (Book signing to follow) – The Oscar, Larson Memorial Concert Hall (102F), Brookings
• Saturday, Sept 21 @ 10:15 a.m. – A Writer’s Process: Technique, Method, and the Five Touchstones – The Oscar, Larson Memorial Concert Hall (102F), Brookings

View the full schedule here!