Peter Ames Carlin

Peter Ames Carlin has been a columnist for the Oregonian newspaper since 2000, and he is the author of Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, which was acclaimed by Wilson collaborator Van Dyke Parks as "the essential Beach Boys saga." He has also worked as a freelance writer and as a senior writer at People magazine. Carlin lives with his wife and three children in Portland, Oregon.