Peter Feibleman (August 1, 1930 – August 23, 2015[1]) was an American author and screenwriter. He won critical acclaim for his novels and received multiple awards for his writings, including a Guggenheim Award in 1960 and a Golden Pen Award in 1983. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays.
Feibleman was born in 1930 in New York City and was raised in New Orleans. He studied acting at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and also attended Columbia University. He was a member of P.E.N. and resided in Los Angeles.
Starting in 1940, Feibleman worked as an actor in radio. From 1951 to 1957, he worked as an actor in Spain. He began writing in 1958. Feibleman was also a co-founder of DBA, a screenplay consulting firm.
Feibleman finished his first literary work, A Place without Twilight, in 1958. The book was met with critical acclaim by the Saturday Review and other publications. Many of his other works were received well by critics.
Feibleman was Lillian Hellman's long-time lover and friend, although she was seven years older than his own mother.[2] He was the dedicatee of Pentimento, and was her principal heir and literary executor.[3]
