Peter Knobler

Peter Knobler (born 1946) is an American writer living in New York City. He has collaborated on several national best sellers and was the editor-in-chief of Crawdaddy magazine from 1972 to 1979.

Knobler specializes in collaboration, having written best-selling books with James Carville and Mary Matalin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, William Bratton, Texan Governor Ann Richards, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Sumner Redstone, among others. He worked with David Dinkins on the former New York City mayor's memoirs. His collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger, American Dreamer, was published in November 2016.

His magazine work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, More, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times sports and Op Ed pages. and been collected in The Bob Dylan Compendium,Racing in the Streets: The Bruce Springsteen Reader, and The Subway Series Reader.

Knobler has co-written songs with Chris Hillman, Steve Miller, Freedy Johnston, and the E Street Band's Garry Tallent. His songs have been recorded on Hillman's solo albums, and by McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, and the Desert Rose Band. The title song of the Oak Ridge Boys' Step on Out album was a Hillman-Knobler composition.

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