Peter S. Prescott

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Peter S. Prescott is an American author and book critic. He was the senior book reviewer at Newsweek for more than two decades.

In January, 1970, Prescott published A World of Our Own: Notes on Life and Learning in a Boys' Preparatory School.

In the April 10, 1978 issue of Newsweek, he accused John Gardner of plagiarism in a review of Gardner's The Life and Times of Chaucer.

In the mid-1990s, Prescott was collecting interviews for a book about Alfred and Blanche Knopf.