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Peter Hessler

Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, Cairo correspondent from 2011 to 2016, and Chengdu correspondent from 2019 to 2021. He is the author of The Buried, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; River Town, which won the Kiriyama Prize; Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; Country Driving; and Strange Stones. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting, and he was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2011.


Inside COVID’s Ground Zero: Wuhan, China Before and After Mass Catastrophe

Peter Hessler Remembers the Pandemic In the Place Where It All Began
July 11, 2024  By Peter Hessler
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In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

Peter Hessler on the Lives of a Neighborhood, Seen Through the Trash
July 1, 2019  By Peter Hessler
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