Peter Kaldheim

Peter Kaldheim is the author of "Idiot Wind," a memoir out now from Canongate Books. He graduated in English and Classics from Dartmouth, before going on to work in publishing, but an addiction to drugs caused his life to come apart, landing him in Rikers Island jail after he sold cocaine to an undercover drug squad agent. He now lives in Lindenhurst, Long Island, where he fishes for fluke on charter boats out of Montauk.