Peter Biskind

Peter Biskind: Biography in Details

Who is Peter Biskind?

Peter Biskind is an American film historian, cultural critic, journalist, and former executive editor from 1986 to 1996 of a Premiere magazine.

 He revealed different books showing his life in Hollywood, including Seeing, Is Believing, Easy Riders, Raging Bull, Down and Dirty Pictures, and Gods and Monsters, some of which were bestsellers.

Peter Biskind: Age, Parents, Siblings, Family

Peter Biskind was born on May 22, 1940, in the United States and is 82 years old. Biskind lives with his family in Columbia County, New York.

The details and identity of his parents, siblings, and education are inaccessible at the moment.

Peter Biskind: Professional Life, Career

From 1986 to 1996 he was a former executive editor of Premiere magazine. Biskind became an editor at Vanity Fair in 1999. Prior to that, he served as the chief editor of American Film and as executive editor of Premiere.

In 2010 Peter published a biography of the director and actor Warren Beatty, entitled Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America. Biskind is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

His effort is seen in different publications that include Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Paris Match, The Nation, The New York Times, The Times (London), and the Los Angeles Times, and in film journals such as Sight and Sound and Film Quarterly.

Peter Biskind served as the editor-in-chief of American Film from 1981 to 1986. Biskind’s books have been translated into over thirty different languages.

Books

Peter Biskind has published many books like Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties (1983) published by New York: Pantheon Books (1990), The Godfather Companion: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About All Three Godfather Films.   published by New York, NY: HarperPerennial.(1998).

Also, Easy Riders, Raging Bull How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock-‘n’-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. (2004). Similarly, He published The Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. New York: Simon & Schuster. (2004).

Furthermore,  Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture From One of America’s Most Incisive Writers.

New York: Nation Books. (2010). Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America. New York: Simon & Schuster (2013). Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles was a book named My Lunches With Orson: New York: Metropolitan Books.

Essays

Also, Biskind has written many essays his “Foreword” and his essay “Inside Indiewood” (April 3, 2000) are included in Bromley, C. (2000). Thunder Mouth Press/Nation Books.

Reconstructing Woody”, Vanity Fair, in December 2005. Similarly, “Thunder on the Left: The Making of Reds“, Vanity Fair, March 2006.

Also, in March 2008 he wrote about “The Vietnam Oscars”, Vanity Fair. Biskind’s Vanity Fair articles “Midnight Revolution” and “Thunder on the Left” got included in Graydon Carter, editor (2008).

Peter Biskind also wrote about the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films. New York, N.Y. published by Penguin Books.

Peter Biskind: Net Worth ($13milion), Income

Peter Biskind has an estimated net worth of $13million as of 2022. His source of income is from royalties from publishing different books.

Peter Biskind: Criticism

Roger Ebert had been reproachful of Peter Biskind since the productions of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, and Down and Dirty Pictures specifically.

Ebert attracted media attention regarding a supposed experience with executive Todd Haynes at a film celebration, where Haynes introduced his film Poison.

Peter claimed Ebert when acquainted with him, and grabbed his hand away from an offered handshake.

Body measurements

Peter Biskind has a height of 5 feet 8inches.

He has brown hair color with brown eyes. Also, he wears a dress size of 4US and a shoe size of 8US.

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