Nero
Joined Atlas Obscura in 2016
Peter N. Névraumont has worked at jobs as varied as a copyboy for New York’s Daily News and an assistant producer at Universal Pictures. In between and beyond he was a reporter for Women’s Wear Daily (now W), an editor at Macmillan when it still published such luminaries as William Yeats and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, managing editor of the Columbia University Forum, national director of advertising and publicity at Films Incorporated, vice president of Ruby Street stationary, and publisher at Névraumont Publishing Company which over the last decade has packaged forty illustrated natural history book written by world-class scientists and produced to art hook standards, most recently Strangers in a New Land: What Archaeology Reveals about the First Americans by J. M. Adovasio and David Pedler. Currently co-authoring with Ian Tattersall, Curator of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, Hoax: A History of Deception for publication fall 2017 by Black Dog and Leventhal, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. He is an accomplished writer, skilled editor, dogged researcher, and multi-award winning art director.
