Peter Lovenheim

Peter Lovenheim is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Parade, Politico, The Forward, AARP Magazine, and many others.

His previous books of narrative non-fiction include In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street; One Sleepover at a Time, winner of a Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the First Annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize; and Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf, a first-hand attempt to understand the food chain, which The New York Times called “important. informative. and sweet;” and The Attachment Effect, an exploration of how early bonds shape personality throughout life.

Lovenheim holds a degree in journalism, summa cum laude, from Boston University, and in law from Cornell Law School. He is Washington Correspondent for the Rochester Beacon. He splits his time between his hometown of Rochester, New York, and Washington, DC.

For more information, see www.peterlovenheim.com.