Peter Manso

Editor of Running Against the Machine (1969); later the author of the major oral biography Mailer: His Life and Times (1985).

Peter Manso edited Running Against the Machine (69.80), the documentary record of the 1969 campaign. He later compiled the major oral biography Mailer: His Life and Times (1985, 85.13) — built from interviews with 151 people and a key source for Mailer studies, though the friendship later soured.