Today is a particularly proud day for the agency, as
Peter Hessler has been named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. If you're not familiar with his work, you can begin by reading his
Letter from Nucla, Colorado about Dr. Don Colcord, and Colcord's life as a small town druggist, in this week's New Yorker. Next, read his "China Trilogy:"
RIVER TOWN: Two Years on the Yangtze;
ORACLE BONES: A Journey through Time in China; and
COUNTRY DRIVING: A Chinese Road Trip.
Jon Michaud has posted
a Peter Hessler reading list on the New Yorker's Back Issues blog.
Read in the China Herald
how Peter's first book, RIVER TOWN, inspired Zhang Lijia to write her bestselling memoir,
SOCIALISM IS GREAT! A Worker's Memoir of The New China. Read more on Lijia's blog
here.
Congratulations, Peter!
