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Nancy Peters (Nancy Joyce Peters) was born on 3 October, 1936 in Seattle, Washington, U.S., is an American publisher and writer. Discover Nancy Peters's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

Popular As Nancy Joyce Peters
Occupation Publisher, writer, bookstore owner
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 3 October, 1936
Birthday 3 October
Birthplace Seattle, Washington, U.S.
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1936

Nancy Joyce Peters (born October 3, 1936) is an American publisher, writer, and co-owner with Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books and Publishers in San Francisco until Ferlinghetti's 2021 death.

Nancy Peters was born in Seattle, and took a BA in literature and an MLS at the University of Washington.

1961

After travel and life abroad between 1961 and 1967, she was briefly employed as a librarian at the Library of Congress.

1971

In 1971 she moved to San Francisco and began working as an editor with City Lights.

In addition to editorial work Peters was involved in coordinating collaborations with literary and community organizations sponsoring readings, performances, and benefits for progressive social action.

Among the authors Peters worked with are Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Harold Norse, Diane Di Prima, Julian Beck, Andrei Vozsesnesky, Anne Waldman, Andrei Codrescu, Sam Shepard, Ron Kovic, Ellen Ullman, Michael Parenti, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Rikki Ducornet, and Alejandro Murguia.

1976

Peters participated with Lamantia in the World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago in 1976, and they sometimes read together at such events as a benefit for Hopi and Navajo traditional peoples and the Santa Barbara Poetry Festival, and they recorded for the San Francisco Poetry Center Archives.

Fourteen of her poems were published in a Black Swan Press chapbook entitled It’s In the Wind.

Her poetry was included in Surrealist Women, An International Anthology and in Anthologie des Poètes Surréalistes Américains.

1978

In 1978, she married the Surrealist–Beat Generation poet Philip Lamantia (1927–2005), who lectured at the Art Institute and San Francisco State University.

1980

Peters helped City Lights avoid a financial crisis in the early 1980s, and become a co-owner of the business in 1984.

1999

She and Ferlinghetti bought the Columbus Avenue building that houses the bookstore in 1999.

2001

City Lights became a registered landmark in 2001, the first time this recognition had been granted to a cultural institution as well as a building.

In the book Literary San Francisco (by Peters & Ferlinghetti), she wrote about the bohemian and radical Bay Area literary scene, from the beginnings through the early 20th century.

Co-editor of Unamerican Activities: The Campaign against the Underground Press, Howl on Trial, and Reclaiming San Francisco, she also edited Free Spirits: Annals of the Insurgent Imagination and a series of City Lights Reviews.

Among other journals, her writing has appeared in Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion, Cultural Correspondence, and The Beats: A Graphic History (Harvey Pekar).

She is the translator of Antonio Tabucchi’s Dreams of Dreams and The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa and was a longtime member of the board of directors of the Istituto Italiano Scuola.

2007

In 2007, after 23 years as City Lights' executive director, Peters stepped down but remains on the board of directors and is president of City Lights Foundation.

2010

In 2010, she was given the Northern California Book Association’s Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Ferlinghetti praised her as "one of the best literary editors in the country."