Peter Lefcourt

Peter Lefcourt (born 1946) is an American television producer, a film and television screenwriter, and a novelist.

Lefcourt's early career involved writing

Much of Lefcourt's fiction has been inspired by his true-life experiences working behind-the-scenes in Hollywood. His first novel, The Deal, was adapted for the screen by William H. Macy and debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Several others of his books are under option or in various stages of development for feature films.

His other novels are The Dreyfus Affair (1992), Di & I (1994), Abbreviating Ernie (1997), The Woody (1998), Eleven Karens (2003), The Manhattan Beach Project (2005), Le Jet Lag (2007), An American Family (2010) and Purgatory Gardens (2015).

Lefcourt lives with his wife Terri in Santa Monica, California.

In a 2012 interview with

• The Deal, about a down-and-out movie producer whose leading man is kidnapped from the set during filming
• The Dreyfus Affair, a comic look at
  historical event
• Di & I, a fictionalized account of Lefcourt's love affair with Diana, Princess of Wales
• Abbreviating Ernie, about a
  urologist
  husband
• Le Jet Lag, Charlie Berns returns along with 4 hapless Americans at the Cannes Film Festival
• The Woody, inspired by his research for an HBO film about the 1995 Bob Packwood scandal
• Eleven Karens, an erotic memoir of his love affairs with eleven women named Karen
• The Manhattan Beach Project, a spoof of reality television featuring the lead character in The Deal
• An American Family, A sprawling narrative of five siblings, born in the 1940s, beginning on the day John F. Kennedy was shot and ending on 9/11.

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