Biography
Peter Biskind (born 1940) is an American cultural critic, film historian, journalist and former executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996. He attended Swarthmore College and wrote several books depicting life in Hollywood, including Seeing Is Believing, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Down and Dirty Pictures, and Gods and Monsters, some of which were bestsellers. In 2010, he published a biography of director and actor Warren Beatty, entitled Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America.
Biskind is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. His work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Paris Match, The Nation, The New York Times, The Times (London), and the Los Angeles Times, as well as in film journals such as Sight and Sound and Film Quarterly. He and his wife Elizabeth Hess were both on the editorial staff of Seven Days magazine in the late 1970s.
He served as the editor-in-chief of American Film from 1981 to 1986.Biskind's books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
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Waiting for Ishtar (2017)
Rocky IV: The American Punch (2014)
New Wave à Hollywood (2014)
Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project (2011)
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010)
The Road to Casino Royale (2008)
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood (2008)
Edge of Outside (2006)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties (2001)
Don't Bank on Amerika (1970)
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GenderMale
Birthday1940-05-22 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceUnited States of America, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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