Sir Peter Stothard FRSL (born 28 February 1951) is a British author, journalist and critic.
He was the son of Max Stothard, an electrical engineer who worked at the Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow.
In 1999, he became involved in a controversial legal dispute over political funding with the Conservative Party treasurer Michael Ashcroft.
His second, Alexandria, The Last Nights of Cleopatra, extended the same form, including accounts of newspaper life alongside the story of his engagement with Greece, Rome and Egypt.
[This quote needs a citation] He was chairman of judges for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction (2012) and president of the Classical Association.
Stothard appears as a character briefly in the first scene of a one-level Tomb Raider expansion videogame made by Core Design in association with The Times.