[3] Knobler specializes in collaboration, having written best-selling books with James Carville and Mary Matalin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, William Bratton, Texan Governor Ann Richards, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Daniel Petrocelli, Tommy Hilfiger, and Sumner Redstone, among others.
briefly suspended publication in 1969, then returned in 1970, with its title unpunctuated, as a monthly with national mass market distribution, first as a quarterfold newsprint tabloid, then as a standard-sized magazine.)
[24] Under Knobler the magazine included contributions from Joseph Heller, John Lennon, Tim O'Brien, Michael Herr, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, P.J.
Knobler's profiles included Bruce Springsteen, Sly Stone, Mel Brooks, Muddy Waters, Linda Ronstadt, Sylvester Stallone, Loudon Wainwright III, the Souther Hillman Furay Band, and Stephen Stills.
[25][26] The record reviews section, driven by editors John Swenson and Noe Goldwasser, had an iconoclastic reputation – well-known and respected by the music industry for its fierce independence.
Crawdaddy's features section regularly covered scenes from New Orleans funk to Austin, Texas' cosmic cowboys to Scientology, est and disco.
Knobler and Greg Mitchell collected a wide range of the magazine's articles in the book Very Seventies: A Cultural History of the 1970s from the pages of Crawdaddy, published in 1995.
He took part in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.[28] Knobler graduated in 1968 with a degree in English literature from Middlebury College.