Peter Kobel has worked as an editor at Entertainment Weekly, ARTnews, and Premiere and has contributed articles to The New York Times and Chicago Tribune, among many other publications.

His critically acclaimed book Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture (Little, Brown) was published in collaboration with the Library of Congress. His biography of the controversial physical anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch will be published by Globe Pequot Press in July.

Kobel has also served as an advocate for conservation and social justice at several nonprofit organizations.