Peter von Ziegesar

Writer and filmmaker Peter von Ziegesar lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Hali Lee, and three children. He has contributed articles and essays to Art in America, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Out, American Ceramics, ArtNet.com, Rizzoli’s The Journal of Art, The Kansas City Star and Borderline, among others. Along the way he has interviewed a long list of authors, film directors, actors and artists, including Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, Wayne Wang, William S. Burroughs, Lou Reed, Paul Auster, Annie Leibovitz, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Weinstein, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kiki Smith, Ann Magnuson, Bill T. Jones, Tony Shafrazi, Kenny Scharf, Boy George, Grace Jones, and Ellsworth Kelly. His memoir, The Looking Glass Brother, a poignant and often hilarious chronicle that outlines the intersecting lives of himself, his homeless stepbrother, Little Peter, and their father, Franz, was published in paperback by Picador this month. After the Newtown tragedy, he delivered a radio essay about the mentally ill and gun control on WNYC Public Radio in New York City.