Holly Peterson

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Holly Peterson
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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 American billionaire 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.[1] She is the author of New York Times bestseller The Manny.

Early life and Education

Holly Peterson was born in 1964 Chicago, Illinois the daughter of billionaire Peter George Peterson and psychologist Sally Peterson.[2] Her father is former Chairman of the Blackstone Group and current Chairman of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation. 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.

Career

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 years. She covered a wide range of domestic and international stories and produced profiles on everyone from Elvis Presley to Mikhail Gorbachev. At ABC News, she won 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 on topics ranging from GE’s Jack Welch to Israel’s Ehud Barak to the man questionably pardoned by President Bill Clinton, Marc Rich for less than two years. 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.

She wrote the social satire The Manny in 2007, which hit the New York Times bestseller list and was sold in twenty-five territories.

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Trustees of the The Children's Storefront, an independent school in Harlem.[3] She also serves on the Task Force of Mount Sinai Global Health Training, a non-profit organization which trains US medical students, public health workers and local populations to practice medecine in North Dakota (for the Spirit Lake Tribe), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Mozambique, Liberia and Belize.[4]

Writing

Aside from Newsweek,[5] she has written for The Daily Beast,[6] The New York Times,[7][8] Avenue,[9] ModernLuxury.com,[10] The Beach blog of ModernLuxury.com,[11] Talk (which was published from 1999 to 2001),[12] and Hamptons magazines.[13]

The Manny

Her first novel The Manny quickly arose to the New York Times best seller list in July 2007.[14] Peterson says she wrote The Manny because she was stunned by the überwealth that has consumed so much of the New York she knows so well. “It’s the era of grand excess,” Peterson says, “and it needed to be exposed.” So she turned her journalist’s eye on the area with the highest density of culprits per capita—what is known in Manhattan as “the grid”—the fabled Upper East Side.[15] The concept behind the book was sprung from Holly's husband (now divorced), Richard (Rick) A Kimball Jr who decided it would be good to have a man about the house to help manage the family.[16]

The Idea of Him

Holly's second novel, The Idea of Him was published in 2014 by Harper Collins. It is another work of social satire based on the high powered New Yorkers who came from nothing and made fortunes, a group she calls the great “accomplishers” that frequent the famed Four Seasons Grill Room. It is also a love story of a woman who is trying to figure out if she is in love with the man or just the idea of him.[17]

Writing : Critical Reception

New York Times Review [18]

Personal life

Peterson married investment banker Richard A. Kimball Jr in 1994,[19] with whom she had three children.[20] She divorced Kimball in 2009.[21]

References

  1. Official website: About Holly Peterson
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  3. Storefront Academy Harlem: Board of Trustees
  4. Mount Sinai Global Health Training: Staff: Task Force
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