PETER MEHLMAN is an American television writer, comedian, and producer, best known for serving as a writer and producer on the TV series Seinfeld through nearly all of the show’s nine-year run. He also created the 1999 series It’s Like, You Know… and produced the 2004 animated series Father of the Pride. He began his career as a sportswriter for The Washington Post and made his first move from print journalism to television writing when, from 1982 to 1984, he wrote for and produced the television series SportsBeat with Howard Cosell. He returned to freelance writing for the next five years, publishing articles in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and Esquire. Since then, he has also contributed articles to The Huffington Post. Deep Down Iola: A Novel About a Young Woman with a Bizarre Gift (Sager Group LLC) is his latest book.
