Peter Lefcourt

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Peter Lefcourt


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Peter Lefcourt is a refugee from the trenches of Hollywood, where he has distinguished himself as a writer and producer of film and television. Among his credits are "Cagney and Lacey," for which he won an Emmy Award; "Monte Carlo," in which he managed to keep Joan Collins in the same wardrobe for 35 pages; the relentlessly sentimental "Danielle Steel's Fine Things," and the underrated and hurried "The Women of Windsor," the most sordid, and thankfully last, miniseries about the British Royal Family.

He began writing novels in the late 1980's, after being declared "marginally unemployable" in the entertainment business by his then agent. In 1991 Lefcourt published The Deal -- an act of supreme hubris that effectively bit the hand that fed hi
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The Dreyfus Affair: A Love ...

3.92 avg rating — 1,027 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions
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Purgatory Gardens

3.68 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions
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The First Time I Got Paid F...

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3.48 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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The Deal: A Novel of Hollywood

3.85 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1991 — 19 editions
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The Woody

3.79 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions
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Di and I

3.66 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions
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The Manhattan Beach Project...

3.43 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions
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Abbreviating Ernie

3.72 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions
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Eleven Karens: A Novel

2.83 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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An American Family

4.04 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2012
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“Why should his sexual preference preclude his being voted into Hall of Fame?"
"You don't know much about baseball, do you, doc?”
Peter Lefcourt, The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story

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