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Peter Catapano
Editor, Opinion Section, The New York Times
Peter Catapano was born in New York City and is a graduate of Cornell University. He studied graduate creative writing at Brooklyn College with fiction writer Jonathan Baumbach and poet Allen Ginsberg. He was an adjunct writing instructor at Brooklyn College and has taught Philosophy and the Media with Simon Critchley at The New School’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, as well as several other classes and workshops at Rutgers, Princeton University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Catapano began his career at The Times as an assistant to The Times Editorial Board in 1998. He became a copy editor in 2000 for The New York Times News Service and joined the Opinion section as an editor in 2005, where he began developing online series and earned a Publisher’s Award in 2008 for his work in pioneering digital content.
Catapano has created and edited some of The Times' most popular series — The Stone, Anxiety, Happy Days, Menagerie and Home Fires — which have helped launch the publishing careers of several writers. He has edited and published more than 1,000 pieces in The Times, working with both beginners and highly accomplished thinkers and writers, including Arthur Danto, E.O. Wilson, Alan Gurganis, Pico Iyer, Siri Hustvedt, Margaret Renkl, Ai Weiwei, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Simon Critchley, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Phil Klay, Oliver Sacks and others.
In 2015, Catapano was asked by Dr. Sacks to edit his final essays in The Times chronicling his illness and death, which were collected in “Gratitude” — now a best-selling book by Knopf. Since then, he has co-edited three books, all published by Liveright: "The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments" and "Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments," with Simon Critchley, and "About Us: Essays from The New York Times Disability Series," with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
Catapano’s The Stone, established in 2010 with Critchley, is the longest-running online series in Opinion, and draws millions of readers each year. Since 2012, about half of the American Philosophical Association’s public philosophy awards have been given to essays published in The Stone. The series has helped bring philosophical thought back into the national conversation.
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