Peter Knobler was born on 1946 and is an American writer living in New York City.
16 Facts About Peter Knobler
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Peter Knobler has collaborated on fifteen books, ten of them best sellers and was the editor-in-chief of Crawdaddy magazine from 1972 to 1979.
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Peter Knobler specializes in collaboration, having written best-selling books with James Carville and Mary Matalin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, William Bratton, Texan Governor Ann Richards, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Daniel Petrocelli, Tommy Hilfiger, and Sumner Redstone, among others.
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Peter Knobler's second book with Bill Bratton, The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America, published by Penguin Press, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
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Peter Knobler has co-written songs with Chris Hillman, Steve Miller, Freedy Johnston, and the E Street Band's Garry Tallent.
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The Hillman-Peter Knobler song "Running the Roadblocks" reached the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.
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Peter Knobler has written championship films for the National Basketball Association and the United States Tennis Association.
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Peter Knobler's profiles included Bruce Springsteen, Sly Stone, Mel Brooks, Muddy Waters, Linda Ronstadt, Sylvester Stallone, Loudon Wainwright III, the Souther Hillman Furay Band, and Stephen Stills.
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In December 1972, after seeing the performer play at Sing Sing prison and Kenny's Castaways, Peter Knobler wrote the first interview and profile of Bruce Springsteen, with special assistance from Greg Mitchell.
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Peter Knobler's Crawdaddy discovered Springsteen in the rock press and was his earliest champion.
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Peter Knobler profiled Springsteen in Crawdaddy in 1973,1975, and 1978.
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Peter Knobler took part in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march with Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
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Peter Knobler graduated in 1968 with a degree in English literature from Middlebury College.
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Peter Knobler sang bass in that school's a cappella group, the Dissipated Eight.
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Peter Knobler attended the Columbia University School of the Arts, Creative Writing Division.
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Peter Knobler briefly managed the career of saxophonist and E Street Band member Clarence Clemons in the 1980s.