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Peter Schwed

1911 – 2003

American editor

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Lived 1911 – 2003 (aged 91–92). Peter Schwed was a writer.

Peter Schwed (1911–2003) was an American editor and the editorial chairman and a trade book publisher for Simon & Schuster. Among the authors he edited were P.G. Wodehouse, Schwed specialized in sports publications and was either an editor or ghostwriter for such sports figures as Jack Nicklaus, Rod Laver, Bill Tilden, Chris Evert, Bjorn Borg, Roger Angell and Ted Williams. He was the co-author of golfer Nancy Lopez's The Education of a Woman Golfer. Schwed left Princeton University as a junior to support his family during the Great Depression. During World War II Schwed served in the Army where he saw combat in Europe and earned a Bronze Star for his service. He left the Military as a captain in 1945. Schwed became the publisher of the trade books division in 1966.

Fellow editor Michael Korda, in his memoir Another Life, described Schwed as "deeply tanned, assertive, short, stocky, a fiercely competitive athlete whose passion was tennis. for 56 years and they had two daughters and two sons.

Katharine H. Wood P. Gregory Schwed Laura S. Schwed Roger E. Schwed Peter Schwed's brother Fred Schwed, Jr. was a humorist and former stock-broker who wrote the classic trading book, Where are the Customers' Yachts?

Death and afterward Schwed died at 92 at Beth Israel North Hospital in Manhattan.

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1911
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Died
2003
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American editor

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Peter Schwed was born in 1911.

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Peter Schwed died in 2003.

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Peter Schwed was a writer.

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· Wikipedia: Peter Schwed

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