Peter M. Wheelwright

Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright is a writer, educator, and architect.

"As It Is On Earth", his first work of fiction, received a 2013 PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention for Literary Excellence in Debut Fiction. "The Door-Man", his latest novel, was listed among "The Best Books of 2022" in The New Yorker.

He is a Professor Emeritus at The New School, Parsons School of in New York City where he taught design and wrote on matters of the environment in both the built and natural worlds. His architectural work has been widely published, and "The Kaleidoscope House", a modernist dollhouse designed in collaboration with the artist Laurie Simmons, is in the Collection of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.

He comes from a family of writers, naturalists, and architects. His uncle and namesake is the late three-time National Book Award recipient, Peter Matthiessen.