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Tom Peek

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Website

http://www.tompeek.com

Genre

Fiction, Suspense, Spirituality

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Member Since

October 2012

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An award-winning novelist and acclaimed writing teacher, Tom Peek lived his early life on Minnesota’s Upper Mississippi River. After hitchhiking by boat through the South Seas, he settled on Hawaiʻi Island three decades ago. There he’s been, among other things, an astronomy and mountain guide on Mauna Kea, an eruption ranger and exhibit writer on Kilauea, and an insider participant in the efforts to protect both sacred volcanoes.

Winner of the 2024 Nautilus Gold Award for Small Press Fiction
Finalist for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize
Winner of a 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction

"Tom Peek’s understanding of place, culture, and current issues is deep and respectful without being heavy-handed.” — Maile Meyer, found ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 182 ratings · 44 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Daughters of Fire 3.97 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mauna Kea: A Novel of Hawai‘i 4.16 avg rating — 43 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mauna Kea: A Novel of Hawai‘i by Tom Peek (Goodreads Author), John D. Dawson (Drawings) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Tom Peek (?)

“He considered watering it down, but his despondency kept him ensconced in his ratty old La-Z-Boy. He recalled his confusion when scaffolding appeared on the summit ridge that winter—onset of the 88-inch telescope’s construction—and wondered what in hell was giving Kukahau‘ula that ugly new profile? Months later, a dome started taking shape, and the newspapers explained that NASA had decided Mauna Kea was the best place on Earth to study the heavens. Johnny’s native wife, Nani, told him an”
― Tom Peek, Mauna Kea: A Novel of Hawai‘i

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Tom’s Quotes

“To be psychologically suited for membership in what I have called the highest class of novelists, the writer must be not only capable of understanding people different from himself but fascinated by such people . . . and have sufficient self-esteem that he is not threatened by difference.”
― John Gardner, John Gardner on Writing: On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction

tags: novelists, the-novelist-life, writing

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“Always do your writing in the wilderness.”
― William Stafford

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