Philippe Mora, who directed Dennis Hopper and knew him as a friend, hails Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel as "the definitive biography of this live wire who lived on the high wire." Val Holley, author of the definitive biography of James Dean, calls Peter Winkler "A genuine Hollywood historian." Peter Winkler has written about movies for CineFan, Crime Magazine, Filmfax, The Jimston Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Playboy, PopMatters, and spiked; and reviewed movies for Video Theater, where he served as associate editor. He has also written for The Huffington Post, PC Laptop Computers Magazine, PICO-Laptops and Portables, and Smart TV & Sound. He was the subject of a feature story in the Los Angeles Times and has been a guest on talk-radio shows in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Winkler graduated with academic honors from the University of California, Los Angeles. He resides in North Hollywood, California.