Peter Ames Carlin

Peter Ames Carlin is a journalist, critic and author. Previously a senior writer at People magazine and a TV critic for The Oregonian newspaper, his work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, the Times (UK), Men's Journal and the British music magazine, The Word.

He is the author of THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS R.E.M. (Doubleday, Nov 5, 2024), SONIC BOOM: THE IMPOSSIBLE RISE OF WARNER BROS RECORDS (Henry Holt, 2021) HOMEWARD BOUND: THE LIFE OF PAUL SIMON (Henry Holt, 2016) BRUCE (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, November 2012), PAUL McCARTNEY: A LIFE (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, November, 2009) and CATCH A WAVE: THE RISE, FALL AND REDEMPTION OF THE BEACH BOYS' BRIAN WILSON (Rodale, 2006).

Carlin lives in Seattle, Wa.