The Gift of the Deer Author:Helen Hoover, Adrian Hoover (Illustrator) One Christmas Eve an emaciated deer stumbled across the yard of Helen Hoover's remote cabin in northern Minnesota. Barely surviving the brutal winter, gaunt from starvation, blind in one eye from a hunting wound, he became the central character in Hoover's popular book The Gift of the Deer. Hoover and her husband Adrian named th... more »is deer Peter, nursed him back to health, and observed Peter and his growing clan for four years.« less