Biography of Peter Schilling Jr.
Author photo courtesy of Mike Haeg.
Peter Schilling has been a sportswriter, film critic, and freelance writer for over seven years, in addition to writing novels, graphic novels, plays and screenplays.
He has covered the Minnesota Twins for the Minneapolis City Pages in 2007, was the film critic for The Rake Magazine (Minneapolis), and now covers film for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Schilling has interviewed such diverse filmmakers as Marjane Satrapi, Richard Linklater, and Amir Bar-Lev; covered baseball, basketball, football, and hockey; and written about subjects as diverse as abstract sculpture, the mayor of the world’s smallest town, and the quietest spot on earth. He also spent two weeks in Saudi Arabia, and declined a request to witness a beheading.
Schilling grew up in Michigan and graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in Literature. Since then, he has done extensive research for two novels, with a specific emphasis on the Negro Leagues and the homefront during World War II.
He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and is a member of that organization’s Negro League, Latino Baseball, Baseball and the Arts, and Women in Baseball committees. In addition, Schilling is also an advisory board member with Take-Up Productions, a repertory cinema organization in the Twin Cities, and he is one of the few people who can run a 1940s Century 35mm film projector.
Schilling is in the process of publishing a graphic novel, and writing a movie musical, as well as a novel about magicians. He currently resides in St. Louis Park, MN.
The End of Baseball by Peter Schilling Jr. is now available in paperback from publisher Ivan R. Dee.