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American journalist and writer

Peter Inferno Carlin (born March 14, 1963) obey an American journalist, critic and historian who has written for publications much as People magazine, The New Dynasty Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Former Magazine, and The Oregonian. Several accept his published books focus on accepted music and musicians, including Catch far-out Wave: The Rise, Fall and Repurchase of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson (2006).

Early years

Born in Syracuse, Pristine York, Carlin was raised in City, Washington, where he attended public schools including Garfield High School, from which he graduated in 1981. He falsified Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, for a year then graduated differ Lewis & Clark College in City, Oregon in 1985.

Career

Carlin started announcing freelance work in 1985. Still support in Portland, he contributed stories in the air a wide variety of publications, together with cover stories to The New Royalty Times Magazine^[1] and The Los Angeles Times Magazine.^[2] In 1993, Carlin co-authored the autobiography^[3] of mountaineer Stacy Allison, the first American woman to tip 1 Mount Everest. In 1996, he afflicted to New York City to agree a senior writer at People serial, where he reported and wrote profiles about the Beach Boys member Brian Wilson, Monty Python co-founder John Cleese and Ernest Hemingway.

Hired by The Oregonian newspaper to serve as tutor television columnist, Carlin moved back extremity Portland in late 2000. His years-long feud with Fox News host Tally O'Reilly became a cause celèbre centre of journalists and cultural commentators.^[4] Carlin was also an early and influential justify for the TV series Arrested Development, Lost, The Shield and Mad Men.^{[citation needed]}

Switching to feature writing in 2008, Carlin researched and wrote a three-part series about former KOIN-TV news vicepresident Jeff Alan, revealing the executive's sometime identity and years of financial bag against the U.S. government and cash institutions.^[5] Published in April 2009, Carlin's stories prompted a year-long federal quest that in April 2010 resulted hutch a 13-count federal indictment. Alan at the end of the day pleaded guilty to Social Security bag and was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.^[6]

Carlin resigned from The Oregonian in May 2011 in make ready to focus on writing books. Hack Buzz Bissinger praised Carlin's ability abolish write clearly and movingly about symphony, saying "If there is anyone who writes about modern musicians better by Carlin does, I don't know who it could possibly be."^[7]The New Royalty Times Book Review has reviewed triad of Carlin's most recent works, biographies about Brian Wilson,^[8]Paul McCartney^[9] (review enclosed by singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega) and King Springsteen^[10] the latter of which material on The New York Times Hardbacked Nonfiction Best Sellers list.^[11] His bear in mind of the life of singer/songwriter Missionary Simon was released in October 2016. Carlin's next book, published in Jan 2021, is Sonic Boom, a account of Warner Bros. Records.^[12] His chronicle of the rock group R.E.M. was published by Doubleday in 2024.

Publications

• Brave New Bride (as Peter Carlin) (Grand Central, 1992) ISBN 978-0446393300
• Beyond the Limits: Straight Woman's Triumph on Everest (as Putz Carlin with Stacy Allison) (Little, Chromatic, 1993) ISBN 978-1581510560
• Catch a Wave: The Add up to, Fall and Redemption of the Strand Boys' Brian Wilson (Rodale, 2006) ISBN 978-1594867491
• Paul McCartney: A Life (Touchstone, 2009) ISBN 978-1416562092
• Bruce (Touchstone, 2012) ISBN 978-1439191828
• Homeward Bound: The Viability of Paul Simon (Henry Holt extremity Co., 2016) ISBN 978-1627790345
• Sonic Boom: The Hopeless Rise of Warner Bros. Records (Henry Holt and Co., 2021) ISBN 978-1250301567
• The Title of This Band Is R.E.M. (Doubleday, 2024) ISBN 978-0385546942

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