--- title: Peter Hessler | TIME description: Hessler is the author of The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting. canonical: https://time.com/author/peter-hessler/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/peter-hessler/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Peter Hessler ## Peter Hessler Hessler is the author of [The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution](https://www.amazon.com/Buried-Archaeology-Egyptian-Revolution/dp/0525559566/ref=sr%5F1%5F1?keywords=peter+hessler&qid=1560528415&s=gateway&sr=8-1). He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting. ## Peter Hessler *  Jun 27, 2019 ### [The Case for Embracing Linguistic Identities](https://time.com/5607433/the-case-for-embracing-linguistic-identities/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/peter-hessler/","name":"Peter Hessler"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/peter-hessler/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/peter-hessler/"},"name":"Peter Hessler","jobTitle":null,"description":"Hessler is the author of The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting.","url":"https://time.com/author/peter-hessler/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```