Peter Muller grew up on a farm north of Baltimore, went to college in Ohio, then got a graduate degree in literature at American University in Washington. He was in a band during college, a songwriting duo after that, and had some tantalizing flirtations with record companies before taking a job teaching English in a small private school. While teaching, he freelanced his way into a copywriting job with a small Washington ad agency. A succession of advertising jobs, first as a writer and later as a creative director in the financial field, led ultimately to a position managing the development of most of the marketing and advertising materials for Merrill Lynch, now known simply as Merrill.

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Along the way, Peter wrote and edited trade books for Putnam as well as articles for Smithsonian and American Heritage magazines, and reams of material for the National Geographic Society. He’s a decent fly fisherman, a mediocre skeet shooter, and owns seven guitars at last count. He’s married with two children and two grandchildren. There are a couple of dogs in the picture as well.