Peter Cook is a writer and media marketer working in Los Angeles and Oceanside, California.
William Lanouette was a journalist on the staffs of Newsweek, The National Observer and National Journal and was Washington correspondent for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His freelance writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Civilization, The Economist, The New York Herald-Tribune, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post. His first book, Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb (Scribners (1992), Chicago (1994), Skyhorse (2013)) was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. From 1991 to retirement in 2006, he was a senior analyst for energy and science issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the investigative agency for Congress. His latest book, The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in the Gilded Age (Lyons Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) continues his lifelong romance with rowing. He first rowed at Fordham College and continued the sport with the London School of Economics Boat Club (University of London), the Potomac Boat Club, and, most recently, the San Diego Rowing Club. He lives with his wife in San Diego.
Uranium + Peaches A play by Peter Cook & William Lanouette 