Peter Ginsberg is a literary agent with the Curtis Brown Literary Agency. Peter joined Curtis Brown following sales and subsidiary rights positions at Doubleday and St. MartinÕs Press. Peter opened Curtis BrownÕs San Francisco office in 1992. He developed the agentsÕ publishing course at the New York University Center for Book Publishing and has taught at the Stanford Publishing Course and the Stanford Communications Workshops as well as the University of California at Berkeley. Peter has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of AuthorsÕ Representatives and the board of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.