Peter Lovenheim

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Peter Lovenheim is an author and journalist whose articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Parade, Politico, the Washington Post, and other publications. He is the Washington correspondent for the Rochester Beacon, an online source of news and commentary for his hometown of Rochester, NY. He has written several nonfiction books, including Gift Shop of Gratitude (2024), The Attachment Effect (2018), an exploration of how early bonds with parents shape personality throughout life, In the Neighborhood (2012), winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and the First Annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize, and Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf (2002), a first-hand attempt to understand the food chain. Lovenheim holds a degree in journalism, summa cum laude, from Boston University, and in law from Cornell Law School. He has taught narrative nonfiction at the Rochester Institute of Technology and at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and splits his time between Rochester and Washington, DC.