Holly Peterson

Holly Peterson
Born	1964
Nationality	American
Education	Phillips Academy Brown University
Occupation	Journalist, novelist
Parent(s)	Peter George Peterson Sally Peterson

Holly Peterson (born 1964) is an American producer, journalist and novelist. The daughter of Peter George Peterson, she was a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, an Editor-at-Large for Talk magazine and an Emmy award-winning producer for ABC News, where she covered global politics. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Manny.

Holly Peterson was born in 1964 Chicago, Illinois the daughter of Peter George Peterson and psychologist Sally Peterson. Her stepmother is Joan Ganz Cooney. Her stepfather, Michael Carlisle, is a partner at the book publishing company Inkwell Management.

She lived in Washington D.C. in elementary school, and moved to New York City where she attended Brearley School and Dalton School before graduating from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1983. She majored in History and Russian Language and Literature at Brown University.

After college, she worked in Washington, D.C. as a Radio Producer for the political consulting firm Squier/Eskew run by Robert Squier and Carter Eskew. She then moved back to New York where she was hired by ABC News and where she remained a Producer of both Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings for a dozen year, winning a National Press Club Award and a television news Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Single Breaking News event for the 1991 coup that dissolved the USSR during Christmas of that year. She then worked for Tina Brown at Talk Magazine in the role of Editor-at-Large where she penned a column called Money Talks and published several long oral histories. Peterson worked as Contributing Editor at Newsweek and wrote several pieces, a cover on Oprah Winfrey and several packages on Women and Leadership. She left the magazine in 2007.

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