Peter Lefcourt

Peter Lefcourt is a refugee from the trenches of Hollywood, where he is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer of film and television. Lefcourt's first novel, The Deal, was a cult favorite in Hollywood. It is one of the ten books that John Gotti reportedly ordered from jail, and has been adapted into a movie. He was, among other things, a co-executive producer on ABC's Desperate Housewives, and the only writer who has kept Joan Collins in the same wardrobe for thirty-five pages. Peter lives...See more

Peter Lefcourt is a refugee from the trenches of Hollywood, where he is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer of film and television. Lefcourt's first novel, The Deal, was a cult favorite in Hollywood. It is one of the ten books that John Gotti reportedly ordered from jail, and has been adapted into a movie. He was, among other things, a co-executive producer on ABC's Desperate Housewives, and the only writer who has kept Joan Collins in the same wardrobe for thirty-five pages. Peter lives in Santa Monica, California. Purgatory Gardens is his tenth novel. See less