Peter Nichols (author)

Peter Nichols
Nichols in 2019
Born (1950-08-13) August 13, 1950
New York City, New York, U.S.
OccupationWriter, professor
Alma materSkidmore College
Antioch University Los Angeles
GenreFiction, non-fiction (including memoir)

Peter Brayton Nichols (born August 13, 1950) is an American writer and academic.

He is known for his bestsellers The Rocks (2015, a novel); A Voyage for Madmen (2001, non-fiction), which was a finalist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year; and Evolution's Captain (2003, non-fiction). His novel Voyage to the North Star was a Book of the Month Club main selection and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Nichols has taught creative writing at Georgetown University, NYU Paris, Bowdoin College, the University of Arizona, and the writing programs at Fairfield University (Connecticut), the University of Arkansas at Monticello, and Antioch University Los Angeles.