Peter Soyer Beagle was born in 1939 in the Bronx. He is arguably America's greatest living fantasist and has written novels, nonfiction, poetry, opera librettos, songs, and screenplays. He is also a talented guitarist and folk singer. As a child he was a voracious reader and appeared regularly on a New York City radio program in which young people presented book reviews. He wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place, when he was still only 19 years old and a student at the University of ...[Read Story]