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About Me: PETER KRASS

Peter Krass is an accomplished and prolific author, editor, and researcher. He has written and edited 10 books, including two biographies. His most recent work is Portrait of War: The U.S. Army's First Combat Artists and the Doughboys' Experience in WWI (Wiley, Fall 2006). It is the gripping tale of eight combat artists who entered the war determined to capture "the shock and loss and bitterness and blood of it."

Krass's first biography was Carnegie (Wiley, 2002). It made the bestseller's list in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Denver, was selected as one of the best biography/business books for 2002, and featured on C-Span's Booknotes. It was reviewed widely, including Barron's, the Economist, the Washington Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Tribune-Review, the Dallas Morning News, the London Times, and The Scotsman, among many other newspapers and magazines. Barron's cited the book as "the definitive Andrew Carnegie."

His next biography was Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel (Wiley, 2004), the first ever biography of the flamboyant boy moonshiner turned whiskey baron in the tumultuous post-Civil War South. Blood & Whiskey was featured on NPR's Marketplace, BBC Radio, C-Span's BookTV, and was the subject of an Associated Press article reprinted widely across the United States.

Prior to his biography work, Krass was the creator of a highly successful series of books on business wisdom, which have sold almost 100,000 copies in English alone: The Book of Business Wisdom, The Book of Leadership Wisdom, The Book of Investing Wisdom, The Book of Entrepreneurs' Wisdom, The Book of Management Wisdom, and The Little Book of Business Wisdom. These books were endorsed by such industry leaders as Warren Bennis, the CEOs of NBC and Merrill Lynch, and renowned investor Roy Neuberger, among others. Books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, Dutch, and Portuguese.

Krass also edited a collection of business essays for The Conference Board, the world's leading business research organization and executive forum, the book entitled The Conference Board Challenge to Business: Industry Leaders Speak Their Minds. In addition, he has written for Investor's Business Daily, profiling past and present business leaders, and Across the Board, which included a cover article detailing the mega-merger craze of the latter 1990s, and Whisky magazine.

Krass has appeared on many national and local television and radio programs. He also served as script consultant for a BBC Scotland television program on Andrew Carnegie that aired in the winter of 2002-2003.

As a lecturer, Krass is in high demand from both civic and business organizations. He has spoken at numerous libraries, museums, historical societies, and business organizations. A graduate of Lafayette College (BA Economics) and Seton Hall University (MA English Literature), Krass lives with his family in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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