Name Peter Wyden Role Journalist | Movies Day One Children Ron Wyden | |
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Grandchildren Adam Wyden, William Peter Wyden, Ava Rose Wyden, Scarlett Willa Wyden, Lilly Wyden Nominations Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Books Day one, The Hitler Virus, Wall: The Inside Story of D, Conquering Schizophrenia, Stella | ||
Peter H. Wyden (October 2, 1923 – June 27, 1998) was an American journalist and writer.
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Life and career
Wyden was born Peter Weidenreich, in Berlin to a Jewish family. His mother, Helen (née Silberstein), was a concert singer, and his father, Erich Weidenreich, was a businessman. He attended the Goldschmidt School until he left Nazi Germany and went to the United States in 1937. After studying at City University of New York, he served with the U.S. Army's Psychological Warfare Division in Europe during World War II. After the war, he began a career in journalism, during which he worked as a reporter for The Wichita Eagle, a feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine, a contributing editor for The Saturday Evening Post in Chicago and San Francisco, articles editor for McCall's, and executive editor for Ladies' Home Journal. He authored or coauthored nine books, and numerous articles that appeared in major magazines. In 1970, he became a book publisher in New York City and Ridgefield, Connecticut.
He was father of Senator Ron Wyden. Franz Weidenreich, German anatomist and physical anthropologist, was one of his uncles.