BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2025 – 2026

Peter Maass

For a biography of Warburgs and Schiffs

Peter Maass is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Book Award. He is also the author of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. He reported on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, and won the Deadline Club Arts Reporting Award for a series of articles in The Intercept about the controversy over Peter Handke receiving the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. He will be working on a joint biography of Jacob Schiff and Felix Warburg – his great-great grandfather and great grandfather – in the context of their philanthropic support for Jewish immigration to British-controlled Palestine and their stance as non-Zionists opposed to the creation of a Jewish state there. His book will be published by Hachette’s Grand Central Publishing.