Biography
Peter von Ziegesar is the author of The Looking Glass Brother: The Preposterous, Moving, Hilarious, and Frequently Terrifying Story of My Gilded Age Long Island Family, My Philandering Father, and the Homeless Stepbrother Who Shares My Name (Picador, 2014). He has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, WNYC, Art in America, Artnet, Lapham's Quarterly, The Common, Aeon, Serious Eats, Out, Outside, and more, and interviewed luminaries such as Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, Wayne Wang, William S. Burroughs, Lou Reed, Paul Auster, Annie Leibovitz, Harry Callahan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kiki Smith, Nan Goldin, Bill T. Jones, Kenny Scharf, and Ellsworth Kelly. He is the recipient of a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize, and he is a founding board member of Archipelago Books. His essays have been anthologized widely, including in Conversations with William S. Burroughs ("Mapping the Cosmic Currents") and The Year 2000: Essays on the End ("After Armageddon: Apocalyptic Art since the Seventies; Tactics of Survival in a Postnuclear Planet"). His work as a filmmaker is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and featured in the recent MoMA exhibitions Private Lives, Public Spaces and Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Kars, New Brunswick, Canada, with his wife, Hali Lee. In 2022 he started the Tennants Cove Writers Workshop in New Brunswick, Canada, along with novelist Melissa Scholes Young.
