Peter Bonventre is an author who has had an award-winning career in journalism. He has worked as a sportswriter for Newsweek, served as a senior editor at Life and the editorial director of Entertainment Weekly, and appeared on ESPN as a pop-culture commentator. As a writer/producer at ABC Sports, he won three Emmys and co-authored Howard Cosell's I Never Played the Game, which spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list.