Peter Geye is the award-winning author of Safe from the Sea, soon to be a major motion picture, and The Lighthouse Road, which was a World Book Night 2014 selection. His most recent novel, Wintering, was published by Knopf in 2016. He was born and raised in Minneapolis, where he continues to live.
“The best and maybe only way to describe my path is that I’m a ‘primitive,’ coming to writing in a very organic fashion through reading. If I’d studied it in college (or even stayed in college) I’d surely have had the storyteller intimidated out of me.” Peter Geye talks with Sarah Stonich about Northern Minnesota, unconventional career paths, and being a literary chameleon.
In Part II of Peter Geye’s interview with Shann Ray, the authors continue their discussion of Ray’s novel American Copper, as well as the rewards of working with good editors, “what makes fiction go,” the lyric in fiction, and more.
Peter Geye talks with Shann Ray about Montana wilderness, intimate landscapes, and Ray’s debut novel, American Copper.
