Peter Knobler (born 1946) is an American writer living in New York City. He has collaborated on fifteen books, ten of them best sellers and was the editor-in-chief of Crawdaddy magazine from 1972 to 1979. Writing Knobler specializes in collaboration, having written best-selling books with James Carville and Mary Matalin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, William Bratton, Texan Governor Ann Richards, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Daniel Petrocelli, Tommy Hilfiger, and Sumner Redstone, among others. He worked with David Dinkins on the former New York City mayor's memoirs. His second book with Bill Bratton, The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of American Policing, was published by Penguin Press in June 2021 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. His magazine work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Sports Illustrated, More, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times sports and Guest Essay pages, and been collected in The Bob Dylan Companion, Racing in the Streets: The Bruce Springsteen Reader, and The Subway Series Reader. His piece "Dancing in the Dark," about Alzheimer's disease, klezmer music, and his mother, was published by the New England Review. His autobiographical piece examining implicit bias, "Walking While White," was published by the Fortnightly Review, as was his first piece of published fiction, the short story "The Right Side of the Diamond". Knobler has co-written songs with Chris Hillman, Steve Miller, Freedy Johnston, and the E Street Band's Garry Tallent. His songs have been recorded on Hillman's solo albums, by McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, and the Desert Rose Band. The Hillman-Knobler song "Running the Roadblocks" reached the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The title song of the Oak Ridge Boys' Step on Out album was a Hillman-Knobler composition. Knobler received a 2008-2009 Sports Emmy Award nomination for his work on the program Baseball's Golden Age. He has written championship films for the National Basketball Association and the United States Tennis Association. Crawdaddy Knobler first wrote for Crawdaddy! under its original editor Paul Williams in 1968. (Crawdaddy! briefly suspended publication in 1969, then returned in 1970, with its title unpunctuated, as a monthly with national mass market distribution, first as a quarterfold newsprint tabloid, then as a standard-sized magazine.) He became editor-in-chief in 1972. Under Knobler the magazine included contributions from Joseph Heller, John Lennon, Tim O'Brien, Michael Herr, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, P.J. O'Rourke and Cameron Crowe, plus a roster of columnists