Memoirs
Peters has written four memoirs of his woebegone days during the 1930s in the North Woods of Wisconsin. His last memoir was on the death of his third son which took place in the 1950s. Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List, summarized Peters' second memoir, Nell's Story, by saying, "As a fascinating exercise in obscure lives retrieved, as a joint effort in painful and exultant memory, this rich memoir has the playful seriousness and inventive charm which characterizes the work of Robert Peters ...""
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