Peter Steiner | |
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| Born | 1940 (age 85–86) Cincinnati,Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | University of Miami (BA) Free University of Berlin University of Pittsburgh (MA,PhD) |
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| Known for | Prompting the adage "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" |
| Website | www |
Peter Steiner (born 1940) is an Americancartoonist, painter, andnovelist, best known for a 1993 cartoon published byThe New Yorker which prompted the adage "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."[1][2] He is also a novelist who has published fourcrime novels.
Peter Steiner was born inCincinnati, Ohio, in 1940 and raised there. His parents had emigrated from Austria in the 1930s.[3]
He attended theUniversity of Miami and spent his junior year at theFree University of Berlin. He earned his B.A. from the University of Miami.[3] After serving in theUnited States Army in Germany, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. inGerman literature from theUniversity of Pittsburgh in 1967 and 1969 respectively.[4][3]
He was a professor of German literature atDickinson College inCarlisle, Pennsylvania, for eight years before turning to being a cartoonist, artist, and a writer of novels.[5][6]
Steiner has contributed cartoons and other material toThe New Yorker since 1979.[7]
His cartoon captioned "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is the most reproduced cartoon fromThe New Yorker.[1][8] Steiner is also well known for his daily cartoons on contemporary events for theWashington Times, which he created for over 20 years, starting in 1983. One selection of these cartoons, titledI Didn't Bite the Man. I Bit the Office, was published in 1994.[9] For several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he also made cartoons forThe Weekly Standard.
Steiner has published four novels, all featuring a former CIA agent named Louis Morgon who has retired to theLoire Valley in France.[10] Of his 2010 novelThe Terrorist,The New York Times reviewerMarilyn Stasio wrote that "While it can't be said that any of [the plot] is the least bit plausible, Steiner presents us with a reassuring fantasy world in which rash youths bow to the wisdom of their elders, terrorists abort their missions out of compassion for their human targets and the innocent victims of egregious acts of cruelty find it in their hearts to forgive."[11]
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