Peter Heller is an award winning adventure writer and the author of four books of literary nonfiction. He lives in Denver, and was born and raised in New York.

An NPR contributor who writes both fiction and nonfiction of adventure, travel, and nature writing talks with Jeniffer about his latest novel, The Guide.

It’s not surprising that Peter Heller is able to bring elements of suspense to his latest thriller novel. After all, he’s quite the adventurer himself, with a whole bevy of stories and experiences to draw from. Though The Guide is fiction, it’s setting is very real, and he’s often asked if the characters he creates are modeled after himself. Peter shares some of his own real-life adventures with Jeniffer, and you’ll learn how and why his thriller novel set within a nature adventure came to be.

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