Peter Gethers
Encyclopedia
Peter Gethers is an American publisher, screenwriter
and author
of television shows, film
s, newspaper and magazine articles, and novelist; the author of several books, including the bestseller The Cat Who Went to Paris
, published in the UK under the title A Cat Called Norton
, the first of the Norton the cat trilogy, about his Scottish Fold
, Norton. He lives in New York City
and Sag Harbor, New York
.
Gethers attended the University of California at Berkeley from 1970 to 1972.
An avid baseball fan, Gethers is a founding member of the first ever Rotisserie Baseball League, the 1980 group that started the fantasy sports craze.
His brother Eric is also a writer, and his father was a television producer.
Gethers' other works include five novels under the pseudonym of Russell Andrews; Gideon, Icarus, Aphrodite, Midas and Hades.
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
of television shows, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
s, newspaper and magazine articles, and novelist; the author of several books, including the bestseller The Cat Who Went to Paris
The Cat Who Went to Paris
The Cat Who Went to Paris is a short novel by Peter Gethers that documents his life with his cat Norton, a Scottish Fold . It spurred two sequel books, A Cat Abroad and The Cat Who'll Live Forever: The Final Adventures of Norton, the Perfect Cat, and His Imperfect Human ....
, published in the UK under the title A Cat Called Norton
The Cat Who Went to Paris
The Cat Who Went to Paris is a short novel by Peter Gethers that documents his life with his cat Norton, a Scottish Fold . It spurred two sequel books, A Cat Abroad and The Cat Who'll Live Forever: The Final Adventures of Norton, the Perfect Cat, and His Imperfect Human ....
, the first of the Norton the cat trilogy, about his Scottish Fold
Scottish Fold
The Scottish Fold is a breed of cat with a natural dominant-gene mutation that makes its ear cartilage contain a fold, causing the ears to bend forward and down towards the front of their head, which gives the cat what is often described as an "owl-like" appearanceOriginally called lop-eared or...
, Norton. He lives in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
and Sag Harbor, New York
Sag Harbor, New York
Sag Harbor is an incorporated village in Suffolk County, New York, United States, with parts in both the Towns of East Hampton and Southampton. The population was 2,313 at the 2000 census....
.
Gethers attended the University of California at Berkeley from 1970 to 1972.
An avid baseball fan, Gethers is a founding member of the first ever Rotisserie Baseball League, the 1980 group that started the fantasy sports craze.
His brother Eric is also a writer, and his father was a television producer.
Gethers' other works include five novels under the pseudonym of Russell Andrews; Gideon, Icarus, Aphrodite, Midas and Hades.
Novels
- The Dandy
- Getting Blue
- The Cat Who Went to ParisThe Cat Who Went to ParisThe Cat Who Went to Paris is a short novel by Peter Gethers that documents his life with his cat Norton, a Scottish Fold . It spurred two sequel books, A Cat Abroad and The Cat Who'll Live Forever: The Final Adventures of Norton, the Perfect Cat, and His Imperfect Human ....
(1991) (biographical) (the same book has been published under A Cat Called Norton, UK 2009.) - A Cat AbroadA Cat AbroadA Cat Abroad is the second short novel by Peter Gethers that documents his life with his cat Norton, a Scottish Fold. It was preceded by The Cat Who Went to Paris and followed by The Cat Who'll Live Forever: The Final Adventures of Norton, the Perfect Cat, and His Imperfect Human...
(biographical) (the same book has been published under For The Love of Norton, UK 2010.) - The Cat Who'll Live ForeverThe Cat Who'll Live ForeverThe Cat Who'll Live Forever: The Final Adventures of Norton, the Perfect Cat, and His Imperfect Human is the third and final short novel by Peter Gethers that documents his life with his cat Norton, a Scottish Fold...
(biographical)