Peter S. Prescott was 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, which described his alma mater, The Choate School, (now Choate Rosemary Hall).
In the April 10, 1978 issue of Newsweek, he accused John Gardner of plagiarism, citing a previously published article by Sumner J. Ferris.
In the mid-1990s, Prescott was collecting interviews for a book about Alfred and Blanche Knopf.
Prescott died in 2004.