Peter von Ziegesar

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'''Peter von Ziegesar''' is an American writer and filmmaker. In 2013 he authored the memoir ''The Looking Glass Brother''.

== Early life and family ==
Von Ziegesar is the son of Franz Albrecht von Ziegesar, who was the CEO and Chairman of [[Bowne & Co.]], and his first wife, Anne Cheney. His parents later divorced and remarried.<ref>https://ift.tt/2WF7Bab> A member of a [[German nobility|German noble family]], he grew up in [[New Canaan, Connecticut]] and summered at his maternal family's [[Long Island]] estate, Peacock Point.<ref>https://ift.tt/2JH3zc6> He is the half-brother of author [[Cecily von Ziegesar]].<ref name= nynews>https://ift.tt/336w8aw>

== Career ==
In 2002 von Ziegesar directed the documentary film ''Prom Night in Kansas City''.

In 2013 von Ziegesar, who works as a freelance film writer, authored the memoir ''The Looking Glass Brother: The Preposterous, Moving, Hilarious, and Frequently Terrifying Story of My Gilded Age Long Island Family, My Philandering Father, and the Homeless Stepbrother Who Shares My Name''. The book details the life of von Ziegesar's step brother, also named Peter, who suffers from mental illness and, despite growing up in an affluent family, became homeless.<ref name= nynews/> He subsequently became his stepbrother's caretaker.<ref>https://ift.tt/2pAr2Vr> Von Ziegesar has also worked as an art critic.<ref>https://ift.tt/2PAadEV>

Von Ziegesar has also written for ''DoubleTake'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', ''[[Outside (magazine)|Outside]]'', and ''[[Art in America]]''.<ref>https://ift.tt/33a6CkG> He was awarded a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize for his short fiction works. His multimedia and film projects were exhibited at the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>https://ift.tt/329awZY>

== Personal life ==
Von Ziegesar lives in [[Brooklyn]] with his wife and three children.<ref>https://ift.tt/2NvBAgF>

== References ==




[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:21st-century American male writers]]
[[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:American memoirists]]
[[Category:American people of German descent]]
[[Category:German untitled nobility]]
[[Category:People from New Canaan, Connecticut]]
[[Category:Von Ziegesar family]]

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