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Welcome to my blog. I document my adventures in travel, style, and food. Hope you have a nice stay!
Welcome to my blog. I document my adventures in travel, style, and food. Hope you have a nice stay!
Peter Knobler is a writer who specializes in autobiography and memoir collaboration. Knobler has an ear for real language that makes his subject's voice and character come alive. This specialized talent brings his collaborator directly and personally to the reader. Editors, reviewers, and readers have all praised how Knobler’s books sound as if their subjects are speaking, as if each is sitting down and telling his or her best stories personally.
His books have been consistently successful, earning spots on the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal Best Sellers lists. Knobler has collaborated with Hall of Fame basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Texas Governor Ann Richards, political strategists James Carville and Mary Matalin, Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone, former NYC and LA Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, OJ Simpson civil suit prosecutor Daniel Petrocelli, Houston Rockets basketball superstar Hakeem Olajuwon, Dallas Cowboy Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, advertising executive/talk show host Donny Deutsch, former New York City mayor David Dinkins, and fashion powerhouse Tommy Hilfiger. His latest book, The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America, written with Bill Bratton, has been published in June 2021 by Penguin Press, and is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
In the 1970s, Knobler was the editor-in-chief of Crawdaddy, the first magazine to take rock & roll seriously. He is the journalist who discovered Bruce Springsteen.
Knobler has written songs with Chris Hillman, Steve Miller, Freedy Johnston, and the E Street Band’s Garry Tallent. His songs have been recorded by the Oak Ridge Boys, Desert Rose Band, Chris Hillman, and McGuinn, Clark & Hillman. The title song of the Oak Ridge Boys’ Step on Out album is a Hillman-Knobler composition.
Knobler received a Sports Emmy Award nomination for his work on the program Baseball’s Golden Age. He has written championship films for the National Basketball Association and the United States Tennis Association. Knobler is creator of the podcast Songs I Send My Son That He Sends Immediately to Spam.
The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America
With Bill Bratton
American Dreamer
with Tommy Hilfiger
A Mayor’s Life
with David N. Dinkins
Often Wrong, Never in Doubt
with Donny Deutsch
Fairy Tales Can Come True
with Rikki Klieman
A Passion to Win
with Sumner Redstone
Triumph of Justice
with Daniel Petrocelli
Turnaround
with William Bratton
Living the Dream
with Hakeem Olajuwon
Very Seventies: A Cultural History of the Decade
editor
All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President
with James Carville and Mary Matalin
A Matter of Honor
with Lt. Remo Franceschini
Forgotten
with Peggy Say
Straight from the Heart
with Gov. Ann Richards
Out of Control
with Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson
Giant Steps
with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The New York Times (Sports and Op Ed sections)
Sports Illustrated
Rolling Stone
Playboy
Cosmopolitan
Daily Beast
New England Review
Fortnightly Review, June 2021
Fortnightly Review, June 2020
Fortnightly Review, March 2013
The Bob Dylan Companion
Racing in the Street:
The Bruce Springsteen Reader
The Subway Series Reader
