Author Peter Green is a writer, architect and city planner raised in a family of writers. He found his father’s 400 World War II letters, his humorous war stories, his mother’s writings and their family’s often hilarious doings too good a tale to keep to himself, so he launched a second career as a writer. His first book recounted the antics and serious achievements of his dad’s World War II adventure, Ben’s War with the U.S. Marines, Greenskills Press (2005, 2014). He has also written two other biographical memoirs of the era, World War II to the present, including Radio: One Woman’s Family in War and Pieces (2016) and Becoming an Architect: My Voyage of Discovery (2022).
Real life skullduggery led to architectural mysteries
In Peter’s architectural career, he encountered enough misdeeds, deception and outright skulduggery to inspire an architectural mystery series. His first Patrick MacKenna Mystery, Crimes of Design, was published in 2014 by Greenskills Press. A new Patrick MacKenna Mystery, Fatal Designs, appeared in early 2015 and a third, a prequel to the series, Chicago’s Designs, in 2019.
Listen to Peter talk about his work
Kathy Lawton Brown interviews Peter on “How I became a writer”:
Peter’s interview continues, “About my books”:
April 8, 2017, on Radio Arts Foundation, 107.3 FM and WFUN 96.2 HD2, St. Louis
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