Peter Newman

Fictional character

Grace Mitchell’s husband. Born in Germany in 1930 to a Jewish family which had assimilated to Lutheranism. His father was a WWI war hero and judge. But the family had to flee to Britain when Peter was 9 years old. Former Slade student at the beginning of Event/Horizon he is a rising star of book publishing.

Appears in

• Event/Horizon
  Cambridge, 1974 — astrophysics & poetry.
• Palace of Tears
  Cambridge & Berlin, 1975 — The Festival Theatre & Prenzlauer Berg.
• The Parallax View
  London & Cambridge, 1976 — archives, doubleness, and what is not said.