Peter Steiner (born 1940) is an American cartoonist, painter and novelist, best known for a 1993 cartoon published by The New Yorker which prompted the adage "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
[4][3] He was a professor of German literature at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for eight years before turning to being a cartoonist, artist, and a writer of novels.
[1][8] Steiner is also well known for his daily cartoons on contemporary events for the Washington Times, which he created for over 20 years, starting in 1983.
Steiner has published four novels, all featuring a former CIA agent named Louis Morgon who has retired to the Loire Valley in France.
[10] Of his 2010 novel The Terrorist, The New York Times reviewer Marilyn Stasio wrote that "While it can't be said that any of [the plot] is the least bit plausible, Steiner presents us with a reassuring fantasy world in which rash youths bow to the wisdom of their elders, terrorists abort their missions out of compassion for their human targets and the innocent victims of egregious acts of cruelty find it in their hearts to forgive.