All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf, it's all first person there.

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• Peter Heller:

  I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

• Peter Heller:

  I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to make

• Peter Heller:

  Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think

• Peter Heller:

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• Peter Heller:

  My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. My mom

• Peter Heller:

  I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity.

• Peter Heller:

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• Peter Heller:

  I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6.

• Peter Heller:

  My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculp

• Peter Heller:

  Loss is universal. I've lost grandparents that I dearly adored, lost animals that were like brother