He wrote an extensive ethnography about the small town of Sikeston, which was published in the Society for Applied Anthropology. The summer before graduating from Princeton, Hessler worked as a researcher for the Kellogg Foundation in southeastern Missouri. After graduating from Princeton, Hessler received a Rhodes Scholarship to study English language and literature at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. in English after completing a senior thesis titled "Dead Man's Shoes and Other Stories." During his junior year, he studied in John McPhee's writing seminar. In 1992, he graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. Hessler grew up in Columbia, Missouri, and graduated from Hickman High School in 1988. In 2011, Hessler received a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition and encouragement of his "keenly observed accounts of ordinary people responding to the complexities of life in such rapidly changing societies as Reform Era China." Early life He is the author of four books about China and has contributed numerous articles to The New Yorker and National Geographic, among other publications. Peter Benjamin Hessler (born June 14, 1969) is an American writer and journalist. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
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