PETER KURTH was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1953. He is a graduate of the University of Vermont, where he earned departmental honors in English and Theatre. His first book, ANASTASIA: THE RIDDLE OF ANNA ANDERSON (Little, Brown 1983), was an international bestseller and made into an NBC television miniseries. Kurth’s biography of anti-fascist journalist Dorothy Thompson, AMERICAN CASSANDRA, also published by Little, Brown, won the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award as the best book about American journalism of 1990. (Hmm … that seems like a long time ago!)

In 1995-1996 Kurth was the author of TSAR: THE LOST WORLD OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA and co-author (with Eleanor Lanahan) of ZELDA: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF ZELDA FITZGERALD (Abrams). His most recent book, ISADORA: A SENSATIONAL LIFE, was published in 2001. (That seems like a long time ago, too.)

Kurth's work has appeared in a variety of national publications, including Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveler, Forbes FYI, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Observer, Cosmopolitan, New York Newsday and Harper's Bazaar. He has written extensively for SALON.COM and is "Crank Call" columnist for Vermont’s SEVEN DAYS, for which he recently won an award for outstanding commentary from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (third place, but who’s counting?).

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