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Peter Lefcourt
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Peter Lefcourt

Peter Lefcourt is the author of six previous novels: Eleven Karens, The Woody, Abbreviating Ernie, Di and I, The Dreyfus Affair and The Deal. He is also an award-winning writer for film and television. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Excerpt 1 from The Deal
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Woody
Aug 30, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Manhattan Beach Project
Aug 30, 2012
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Chapter 3 from The Woody
Feb 04, 2009
The Manhattan Beach Project will be released on August 13, 2007 in Trade Paperback
Aug 13, 2007
The Manhattan Beach Project is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Manhattan Beach Project will be released on February 09, 2005 in eBook
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The Deal will be released on February 28, 2003 in eBook
Feb 28, 2003
The Deal is now available in eBook
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Feb 28, 2003

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PRLog, March 24, 2013
...Riff is a kick -- a funny, well-told tale about the world's most insane business." – Peter Lefcourt, Emmy Award winner, screenwriter and best-selling novelist specializing in the Hollywood scene. "Shelly Frome’s Tinseltown Riff takes us on a ride...
The Week Magazine, February 24, 2013
...and President Joseph Kennedy is visiting Berlin. A story this big requires a big-screen adaptation. The Woody by Peter Lefcourt (Simon & Schuster, $24). Lefcourt inspires in me late-at-night, wake-up-your-girlfriend laughter. This scathing indictment...
Broadway World, September 6, 2012
...odysseytheatre.com/collectedstories/ Terri Hanauer (Director) recently staged the World Premiere production of Mutually Assured Destruction by Emmy winner Peter Lefcourt, which played to sold out crowds at the Odyssey. She helmed the short film A Day in...
Library Journal, June 18, 2012
...Akaran dynasty are forced to run for their lives. Fans of Susan Isaacs’s novels will also enjoy Peter Lefcourt’s Abbreviating Ernie (Villard, 1997; o.p.), which is one of the funniest novels I’ve ever read. After her cross-dressing urologist...
Queer Planet, May 30, 2012
...out. There are two books which I love to reread over and over again. The Dreyfus Affair by Peter Lefcourt and Sex Toys of the Gods by Christian McLaughlin. It’s interesting that both these authors work in Hollywood. Dreyfus is about a superstar gay...
Huffington Post, December 31, 2012
...DeLorenzo created many lovely stage pictures at the Lebedev estate. Mutually Assured Destruction (Theatre Planners at Odyssey Theatre) Peter Lefcourt's hilarious and wonderfully calibrated play about three couples, lying to hide their guilt and to...
Broadway World, September 6, 2012
...odysseytheatre.com/collectedstories/ Terri Hanauer (Director) recently staged the World Premiere production of Mutually Assured Destruction by Emmy winner Peter Lefcourt, which played to sold out crowds at the Odyssey. She helmed the short film A Day in...
BackStage.com, August 16, 2012
...in place for the world premiere of "Mutually Assured Destruction," including a script by Emmy Award–winning writer Peter Lefcourt, the spotless Racquel Lehrman of Theatre Planners as producer, acclaimed director Terri Hanauer at the helm, and an...
Santa Monica Mirror, August 7, 2012
...Days, Theater, Review, Santa Monica Beverly Cohn / Editor-At-Large The plot of this tasty theatrical morsel, written by Peter Lefcourt and well directed by his wife Terri Hanauer, who keeps the action moving at break-neck speed, is a familiar one –...
TheaterMania, June 27, 2012
...The world premiere of Peter Lefcourt's Mutually Assured Destruction is set to play at the Odyssey Theatre, July 21-August 26. Terri Hanauer will direct. Described as "Yasmina Reza meets Moliere," in Mutually Assured...
Broadway World, June 26, 2012
...Emmy Award-winner Peter Lefcourt’s new play makes its World Premiere debut at the Odyssey Theatre, opening on Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 8pm. Mutually Assured Destruction runs 8pm Fridays and Saturdays, and...
Library Journal, June 18, 2012
...Akaran dynasty are forced to run for their lives. Fans of Susan Isaacs’s novels will also enjoy Peter Lefcourt’s Abbreviating Ernie (Villard, 1997; o.p.), which is one of the funniest novels I’ve ever read. After her cross-dressing urologist...