Peter Richardson
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Peter Richardson

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Peter Richardson has written critically acclaimed books about Hunter S. Thompson, the Grateful Dead, Ramparts magazine, and radical author/editor Carey McWilliams. He is currently writing a book about the first decade of Rolling Stone magazine. Richardson's essays have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Los Angeles Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, California, Guernica, California History, and many other outlets. Excerpts of his work appeared in the New York Times, Mother Jones, and Bookforum. A busy book reviewer, Richardson received the National Entertainment Journalism Award for Online Criticism in 2013. From 2006 to 2023, Richardson taught courses on California culture at San Francisco State University. He has been featured in documentary films, podcasts, public radio programs, and newspaper and magazine stories both in North America and abroad. He also speaks at universities, museums, book festivals, and historical societies. Richardson's professional experience includes editorial stints at the University of California Press, PoliPoint Press, the Public Policy Institute of California, and Harper & Row, Publishers. In the 1990s, Richardson was an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas, a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Iceland, and an NEH Summer Seminar fellow at Harvard University. He also wrote a textbook on stylistic revision, now in its second edition. Before that, he earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born and raised in the East Bay, he now lives in Sonoma County.
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