Peter S. Prescott

Who was Peter S. Prescott?

Peter S. Prescott was an American author and book critic. He was the senior book reviewer at Newsweek for more than two decades.

In January, 1970, Prescott published A World of Our Own: Notes on Life and Learning in a Boys' Preparatory School, which described his alma mater, The Choate School,.

In the April 10, 1978 issue of Newsweek, he accused John Gardner of plagiarism, citing a previously published article by Sumner J. Ferris.

In the mid-1990s, Prescott was collecting interviews for a book about Alfred and Blanche Knopf.

Prescott died in 2004.