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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 and was named an International Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement.[2]

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.[3]

From 1982 to 1991, Blauner wrote for New York magazine, covering crime, politics, and oddball city characters.[4]

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.[5]

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.[6] It won the Edgar award, and named an "International Book of the Year" in the Times Literary Supplement by Patricia Highsmith.[7]

Blauner then spent several years researching a novel about Atlantic City, New Jersey. Casino Moon was published in 1994.[8]

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 [9] was a New York Times bestseller [10] and a bestseller in England as well.[11]

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.[12]

Blauner's next novel The Last Good Day, was published in 2003. It concerned the effect of social change on individual lives, and reflected how one town outside New York City reacted to the events of 9/11.[13]

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 may or may not have committed, and the detective who put him there.[14]

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.[15]

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.[16] Mostly recently, 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".[17][18]

Novels

Short stories

  • "Going, Going, Gone," The Best American Mystery Stories 2007. Selected Shorts from Symphony Space
  • "The Consultant," Wall Street Noir, 2007
  • "Thank God for Charlie," The Rich and The Dead, 2011
  • "The Chair," Kwik Krimes, 2013
  • "The Final Testament," Mysterious Press, 2013

References

  1. ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3417700027/blauner-peter-1959.html
  2. ^ Times Literary Supplement, December 6, 1991
  3. ^ http://www.peterblauner.com
  4. ^ Blauner, Peter. "King on the Ropes." New York magazine, March 18, 1991
  5. ^ "The Voices of New York," New York magazine, April 11, 1988
  6. ^ Blauner, Peter. Slow Motion Riot. William Morrow & Co. New York. 1991. ISBN: 0-688-10068-6
  7. ^ TLS, December 6, 1991
  8. ^ Blauner, Peter. Casino Moon, Simon & Schuster, New York. 1994. ISBN: 0-671-88177-9
  9. ^ Blauner, Peter. The Intruder, Simon Schuster, New York, 1996. ISBN: 0-684-81094-8
  10. ^ The New York Times Book Review, February 2, 1997
  11. ^ The Observer, London, September 14, 1997
  12. ^ Blauner, Peter. Man of the Hour, Little Brown. Boston. New York 1999 ISBN: 0-316-03817-2
  13. ^ Blauner, Peter. The Last Good Day, Little Brown, Boston. New York. 2003. ISBN: 0-316-09873-6
  14. ^ Blauner, Peter. Slipping Into Darkness, Little Brown,Boston. New York. 2006. ISBN: 0-316-09866--3
  15. ^ King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 10th anniversary edition, Scribner, New York 2010 ISBN-13:1439156810
  16. ^ Today.com
  17. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2604261/
  18. ^ Publishers Weekly, January 16, 2014

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