Peter York

Peter York

Peter York, real name Peter Wallis, is a British management consultant, author and broadcaster most famous for co-authoring "Harpers & Queen's" "The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook" with Ann Barr. He is also a columnist for "The Independent on Sunday", "GQ" and "Management Today".

Peter Wallis

Peter Wallis was the co-founder, with Lord Stevenson of the management consultancy SRU Ltd, and during the 1980s developed the SRU Group of nine specialist business consultancies. He was appointed Chairman of a Department of Trade and Industry Committee in March 1994. The committee was set up to examine the future of leisure in the UK as part of the British Government's 'Foresight' initiative. Peter Mandelson worked as a consultant to SRU between 1990 and 1992.

SRU was sold to the giant PR group Brunswick in 2000. The relationship foundered, and SRU was bought back into private ownership. It remains intensely private, and has no public website.

Peter York

It is under his pseudonym Peter York that Wallis has made his most high-profile offerings, from writing the "Sloane Ranger Handbook" and being Style Editor of "Harpers & Queen" for 10 years, to financing "The Modern Review".

Emulating his hero, the American journalist Tom Wolfe, Peter published a series of essays in social and cultural observation in the magazine Harpers & Queen during the late 1970s. Written in the style of Wolfe's new journalism, these were collected in the book "Style Wars" (1980). Following the enormous success of The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), itself an extension of such social observation, Peter became a sought-after media commentator on English social trends and traits. A further collection of essays, "Modern Times", was published in 1984. "Peter York's Eighties" (1995), co-authored with Charles Jennings, was both a book and a BBC television series.

"Dictators' Homes" (2005), published in the US under the title "Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots", explored the interior design favoured by dictators as a reflection of their despotic characters.

On the [http://www.born-today.com Born Today] web site, a "Peter York" is credited with saying "Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world."

(The quote is from his essay 'Grey Hopes' ("Harpers and Queen", 1978), collected in "Style Wars" (London, Sidwick and Jackson, 1980: p. 194)

In 2007, he published Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: the Return of the Sloane Ranger, written with Olivia Stewart-Liberty.

External links

* [http://www.marketing-society.org.uk/main.asp?page=event-details&eventid=L-WS05005 York's biography] at The Marketing Society


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