Peter Gethers

Peter Gethers
Gethers connecting with audience at Barnes & Noble, New York. Monday, August 12, 2013.
Pen name	Russell Andrews
Occupation	Publisher, screenwriter, author, novelist
Notable works	The Cat Who Went to Paris

Peter Gethers (born 1955) is an American publisher, screenwriter and author of television shows, films, newspaper and magazine articles, and novelist; the author of several books, including the bestseller The Cat Who Went to Paris, published in the UK under the title A Cat Called Norton, the first of the Norton the cat trilogy, about his Scottish Fold, Norton. He lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York.

Gethers attended the University of California at Berkeley from 1970 to 1972.

An avid baseball fan, Gethers is a founding member of the first ever Rotisserie Baseball League, the 1980 group that started the fantasy sports craze.

His brother Eric is also a writer, and his father was a television producer.

Gethers' other works include five novels under the pseudonym of Russell Andrews; Gideon, Icarus, Aphrodite, Midas and Hades.