# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-hessler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:31:41.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-hessler"
name: "Peter Hessler"
slug: "peter-hessler"
description: "Peter Benjamin Hessler is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of four books about China and has contributed numerous articles to The New Yorker and National Geographic, among other publications. In 2011, Hessler received a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his \"keenly observed accounts of ordinary people responding to the complexities of life in such rapidly changing societies as Reform Era China.\""
tagline: "American writer and journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-06-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump