He’s a devoted outdoors-man who has traveled the world, kayaked Class V rapids, flown planes, and crafted some of the most poetically evocative yet profoundly masculine books of his time. Is there anything that author Peter Heller can’t do?
Author Peter Heller
In a recent interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Heller describes his creative process, his passions and evolution as an author (describing his foray into adventure journalism and away from fiction-writing a “joyful diversion”), and introduces readers to his latest novel, The Painter.
The Painter is an achingly beautiful and wildly suspenseful novel about an artist trying to outrun his dark past. As Heller intimates in the Star Tribune interview, this book’s style and content reflect his origins as a poet as much as they do his appreciation for natural landscapes:
“[Early in my career] I loved writing about wild places, and characters under pressure, and it taught me a lot about how to make a place vivid and alive, and how to make characters jump off the page, and how to pace an exciting story.”
Heller is touring the Twin Cities this week, speaking at the Stillwater Public Library on Thursday February 12th as part of “Club Book” series sponsored by eight public library systems in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, which brings vibrant contemporary authors to speak at local libraries throughout the year.
To invite Heller to speak at your next event, contact Books In Common.
