Peter Gilman (1926-1999) was a reporter for The Honolulu Star-Bulletin in the 1950's when he wrote ''Diamond Head,'' which topped the New York Times best-seller list in 1960. Columbia Pictures paid $100,000 for the book, at the time the highest ever paid by the studio to an unknown author. The novel became the 1962 movie ''Diamond Head,'' starring Charlton Heston. After his success Gilman moved to Paris. Later he trained polo ponies in Argentina and became an artist and commercial fisherman in Mexico.
Discipline:
Literature
Peter Gilman
Discipline:
Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1962
Studios
Mixter
Peter Gilman worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…