Peter Biskind is a journalist, former executive editor of Premiere magazine, Bloomsbury.com - Bloomsbury Author Information and the author of numerous books depicting life in Hollywood, including Seeing is Believing, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Down and Dirty Pictures, and Gods and Monsters. He has also written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times and The Washington Post, and is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
He has served as the editor-in-chief of American Film.
(1983). How Hollywood Taught Us To Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties. New York: Pantheon Books.
(1990). The Godfather Companion: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About All Three Godfather Films. New York, NY: HarperPerennial.
(1998). Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock-'n'-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
(2004). Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. New York: Simon & Schuster.
(2004). Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture From One of America's Most Incisive Writers. New York: Nation Books.
(2010). Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Essays
Peter Biskind's "Foreword" and his essay "Inside Indiewood" (April 3, 2000) are included in: Bromley, C. (2000). Cinema nation: the best writing on film from the Nation, 1913-2000. New York: Thunder Mouth Press/Nation Books.
.... " Reconstructing Woody, Vanity Fair, December 2005.
.... " Thunder on the Left: The Making of Reds", Vanity Fair, March 2006.
.... " The Vietnam Oscars", Vanity Fair, March 2008.
Peter Biskind's Vanity Fair articles "Midnight Revolution" and "Thunder on the Left" are included in: Graydon Carter (2008). Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood: Rebels, Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books.