Peter Manso (December 22, 1940 – April 7, 2021) was an American writer and journalist known for definitive biographies on Jackie Stewart, Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando.
He gained particular notoriety as an interviewer. His 1970 book Vroom!! conversations with the Grand Prix champions was composed entirely from transcripts of his talks with ten Formula One drivers.
He later had interviews published regularly in Penthouse Magazine as well as Playboy (and its subsidiary Oui), Car and Driver, Premiere and The Guardian. Subjects included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Leonard Peltier, Al Unser Jr., Roy Cohn, Ed Koch, Oliver Stone, Sam Donaldson, Mark Fuhrman, Roger Penske and Peter O’Toole.[1][2] Schwarzenegger's admission of group sex and drugs resurfaced when he ran for governor of California. Koch's comments that suburbs were “sterile” and rural America “a joke” is attributed to having cost him the New York governor race.[3][4]
Manso also wrote articles for Vanity Fair, Boston Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Sunday Times, Los Angeles Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and Politico. Many were translated into French for Paris Match.[5][6]
Peter Bloch, editor of Penthouse, wrote, “In truth, there were no others like him. He not only was the best interviewer in the business but he was a vivid and evocative prose stylist and an intrepid and dogged researcher (I remember his joy at tracking down Marlon Brando's fourth-grade teacher).”[7][8]
His penchant for interviews and research shaped later books he wrote. His 765-page Mailer, His Life and Times was pieced together from manuscripts of more than 200 interviews. He conducted 750 for the 1,160-page Brando: The Biography.[9][10]
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^"Car and Driver, Peter Manso".
^"The Terminator As Predator? (Democracy Now!)". Democracy Now!.
^Roberts, Sam (April 9, 2021). "Peter Manso, Biographer of Brando and Mailer, Dies at 80". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
^"Peter Manso, biographer of Mailer and Brando, dies at 80". ABC News.
^"Remembering Peter Manso, biographer of Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando". Berkeleyside. June 17, 2021.
^"Remembering Peter Manso". Berkeleyside. June 17, 2021.
^"Remembering Peter Manso: His Life, His Work" (July 1, 2021). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^Fraser, Doug (April 7, 2021). "Cape Cod Author Peter Manso, 80, Dies in his Truro Home". Cape Cod Times.
^Roberts, Sam (April 9, 2021). "Peter Manso, Biographer of Brando and Mailer, Dies at 80". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
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depiction of Millett for the August 31, 1970, cover. According to biographer PeterManso, The Prisoner of Sex was written by Norman Mailer in response to Millett's...
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on the Lower East Side, whose alumni include the writers PeterManso, Ann Lauterbach, Peter Knobler and Richard Kostelanetz. Its director from 1951 to...
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Giovanni Battista Manso (1570 – 28 December 1645) was an Italian aristocrat, scholar, and patron of the arts and artists. He was for many years the leading...
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'This is Just the Beginning!!!'". Billboard. Retrieved October 18, 2020. Manso, James (December 10, 2020). "Selena Gomez Wins Startup of the Year at Beauty...
was a son of Manso and great-grandson of Lando. His mother's name is unknown, but she belonged to the Vulcano family of Sorrento, whom Peter referred to...
Asante surname Takyi, and Mansong is a corruption of the Asante surname Manso, respectively. Ashanti cultural artifacts, regalia and other forms of symbolism...
IV of Salerno. Duke John II drives his brother Manso II and his mother Maria out of Amalfi. He has Manso blinded and exiled to the island of Sirenuse....
acting regent for Prince Pandulf II. He was pushed out with the prince by Manso, Duke of Amalfi, in 981. The rule of the Amalfitan and his son John was...
outbreaks of illness. The series was broadcast on Court TV, narrated by Peter Thomas, and produced by Medstar Television, in association with Court TV...
October 24, 1975. Manso, Peter (2002). Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743243117. Manso, Peter (2002). Ptown:...
thought to possibly have roots in the original Bono state settlement at Bono Manso. The Ashanti kingdom's government operated first as a loose network and...
September 9, 2017. "The Private World of Marlon Brando" from Time magazine. Manso, Peter (1994). Brando: The Biography. Hyperion Press. pp. 812-813. ISBN 0-7868-6063-4...
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