Peter Murray Hautman (born September 29, 1952) is an American author best known for his novels for young adults.
The National Book Foundation summary is, "A teenage boy decides to invent a new religion with a new god."
Hautman was born in Berkeley, California on September 29, 1952[1] and moved to St. Louis Park, Minnesota at the age of five.
He graduated from St. Louis Park High School and attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota during the next seven years without receiving a degree from either institution.
He lives with novelist and poet Mary Logue in Golden Valley, Minnesota and Stockholm, Wisconsin.