Peter Blauner

Peter Blauner (born October 29, 1959[1]) is an American author, journalist, and television producer.

Blauner has written six novels, including Slow Motion Riot, which won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America[2] and was named an International Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement.[3]

Early career

Blauner started in journalism as an assistant to Pete Hamill, before reporting for the Newark Star-Ledger in New Jersey and the Norwich Bulletin in Connecticut.[4]

From 1982 to 1991, Blauner wrote for New York magazine, covering crime, politics, and oddball city characters.[5]

Blauner also was the author of a full-length issue of the magazine, "The Voices of New York," (April 11, 1988), which was an oral history of the city from 1968 to 1988. He interviewed more than 70 famous and infamous New Yorkers for the issue.[6]

Novelist

In 1988, at the height of the crack epidemic, Blauner took a leave of absence from his journalism job and spent six months as a volunteer probation officer. He used those experiences as research for his first novel Slow Motion Riot.[7] It won the Edgar award, and named an "International Book of the Year" in the Times Literary Supplement by Patricia Highsmith.[8]

Blauner then spent several years researching a novel about Atlantic City, New Jersey. Casino Moon was published in 1994.[9]

For his next book, Blauner spent a year as a volunteer at a homeless shelter and visited the underground dwellings of "mole people" living beneath Manhattan's Riverside Park. The resulting novel The Intruder [10] was a New York Times bestseller [11] and a bestseller in England as well.[12]

Man of the Hour appeared in 1999: a pre-9/11 suspense novel about Middle Eastern terrorism in New York, the hysteria of modern celebrity, and the public school system.[13]

Blauner's next novel The Last Good Day, published in 2003 was a mystery story, set in the suburbs outside New York City in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. .[14]

Slipping Into Darkness was published by Little Brown in 2006. It told the story of a young man who spends twenty years in prison for a crime that he may or may not have committed, and the detective who put him there.[15][16]

In his book "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft," Stephen King names two of Blauner's novels, The Intruder and The Last Good Day, on his recommended reading list.[17]

Later career

In more recent years, Blauner has been writing for television. He has been on the writing staffs of three shows in the Law & Order franchise.[18] He served as a co-executive producer of Law & Order: SVU, where he was the writer of the show's 300th episode, "Manhattan Vigil" and the Edgar-nominated co-writer of the episode "Legitimate Rape".[19][20] More recently, he has been writing as a co-executive producer for the CBS show, "Blue Bloods." [21] A new novel, "Proving Ground," is scheduled to be published by Minotaur/St. Martin's Press in 2017.[22]

Novels

Short stories

References

  1. ↑ http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3417700027/blauner-peter-1959.html
  2. ↑ Dallas Morning News, May 2, 1992
  3. ↑ Times Literary Supplement, December 6, 1991
  4. ↑ Salemy, Shirley. "Bonfire in Slow Motion," Manhattan Spirit newspaper. April 18, 1991
  5. ↑ Smith, Chris. "Walk on the Wild SIde" New York magazine, June 10, 1991
  6. ↑ "The Voices of New York," New York magazine, April 11, 1988
  7. ↑ Smith, Chris. "Walk on the WIld Side." New York magazine. June 10, 1991.
  8. ↑ TLS, December 6, 1991
  9. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-blauner-2/casino-moon-2/
  10. ↑ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Even for a Rich Lawyer, City Life Can Be Murder," New York Times, July 4, 1996
  11. ↑ The New York Times Book Review, February 2, 1997
  12. ↑ The Observer, London, September 14, 1997
  13. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/25/books/books-in-brief-fiction-poetry-234028.html
  14. ↑ Minezesheimer, Bob. "Setting steers 'Day, Winterkill.' USA Today, May 27, 2003
  15. ↑ Briefly Noted, The New Yorker, February 27, 2006
  16. ↑ http://www.nysun.com/arts/boy-have-i-got-a-book-for-you/28324/
  17. ↑ King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 10th anniversary edition, Scribner, New York 2010 ISBN 978-1-4391-5681-0
  18. ↑ Today.com
  19. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2604261/
  20. ↑ Publishers Weekly, January 16, 2014
  21. ↑ http://observer.com/2016/03/get-me-rewind-why-current-hit-tv-series-live-in-the-past/<ref name="undefined" /
  22. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/london-book-fair/article/69783-london-briefcase-2016-what-u-s-agencies-will-be-selling-at-the-london-book-fair.html
  23. ↑ The Best American Mystery Stories 2007. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, New York. 2007. ISBN 978-0-618-81263-9
  24. ↑ http://www.wnyc.org/story/61743-gone-missing/
  25. ↑ Mystery Writers of America Presents The Rich and The Dead, Grand Central Publishing, New York, 2011. ISBN 978-0-446-55587-6
  26. ↑ Blauner, Peter. The Final Testament, Mysterious Press, New York, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61316-050-3

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