Name Peter Tompkins Role Journalist | Movies The Secret Life of Plants Children Ptolemy Tompkins | |
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Occupation journalist, WWII spy, & author Parents Mary Arthur, Laurence Tompkins Books The Secret Life of Plants, Secrets of the Soil, Mysteries of the Mexican, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, The Secret Life of Nature: Li Similar People Ptolemy Tompkins, Walon Green, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Etienne Drioton, Hetepheres I | ||
Peter Tompkins (April 19, 1919 in Athens, Georgia, U.S. - January 23, 2007 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, U.S.) was an American journalist, World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS) spy in Rome, and best-selling occult author.
He was war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and CBS during World War II. In 1943 he was recruited by the OSS and utilized as an undercover agent in Italy in 1944. He worked closely with Maurizio Giglio, an Italian policeman who was an OSS secret agent. In 1962 he published his diary, titled A Spy in Rome (New York: Simon & Schuster).
His best-known books are The Secret Life of Plants (1973), Secrets of the Great Pyramid (1972; paperback reprint, 1997), and Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids (1976).
He was the father of author Ptolemy Tompkins.
His Secrets of the Great Pyramid, Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids and The Magic of Obelisks have become classics of "New Age" literature.