Peter Hessler is an American writer and journalist. He is currently the Beijing correspondent for "The New Yorker" and a contributor to "National Geographic". He has previously written for the "Atlantic Monthly", the "New York Times", the "Boston Globe", the "Wall Street Journal", and other American newspapers and magazines. He is best known for his two books on China: "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze" (2001), … Wikipedia
I FIRST HEARD ABOUT Peter Hessler at the annual meeting of the National Peace Corps Association last summer. www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2001/0101/101talkhess.html
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