Peter Spielberg was born in Vienna, Austria. He has been teaching English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York since 1961. Spielberg has been awarded fellowships in fiction by the New York Foundation for the Arts and by the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of five other books including Hearsay (FC2, 1992), Crash Landing (Fiction Collective, 1985) and The Hermetic Whore (Fiction Collective, 1977).