Author Peter Heller
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October 25, 6:00 pm-8:30pm |
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Crested Butte Library |
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 Please join us as we welcome, New York Times Bestselling author, Peter Heller, to Crested Butte on Friday, October 25, 2019. This event is generously sponsored by the Crested Butte Friends of the Library and is free and open to all. Schedule of events: 6-7 pm Social hour. Free appetizers and cocktails (21+) and an opportunity to mingle with Peter. 7-8 pm Presentation + Q&A. 8 pm Book signings. Books available for purchase from Townie Books. About the author: Peter Heller is the national best-selling author of The River, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip–a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence. Heller has also written the novels Celine, The Painter, and The Dog Stars. The Painter was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the prestigious Reading the West Book Award, shared in the past by Western writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Terry Tempest Williams, and The Dog Stars, which was published to critical acclaim and lauded as a breakout bestseller, has been published in twenty-two languages to date. Heller is also the author of four nonfiction books, including Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave, which was awarded the National Outdoor Book Award for Literature, Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsango River, and The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet’s Largest Mammal. 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, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in poetry and fiction and lives in Denver, Colorado.
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