Peter Morton Coan (b. 1956) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and adopted and raised by an affluent Jewish family in Manhattan. After graduating high school he befriended singer-songwriter Harry Chapin offering to write his biography. Like the movie Almost Famous, he went on to spend the next seven years traveling with Chapin and his band all the while attending college—the University at Buffalo and later Boston University. He is the former Executive Editor of World Tennis magazine and Boating Industry magazine. He is married with two daughters and lives in Manhattan.