Primary Job Title Member of the Board of Directors Primary Organization 
University of California Press
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Website www.peterboothwiley.com/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Peter Booth Wiley has served as Chairman of the Board of John Wiley & Sons since 2002 and has been a member of the board since 1984. He represents the sixth generation of Wileys to play a leadership role at the company.
Peter is Chairman of the California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo’s Library and Technology Advisory Council and
serves on the Board of Directors of the University of California Press.
He is the author of many books including Empires in the Sun: The Rise of the New American West, America’s Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power, and Yankees in the Land of the Gods: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan.
Peter was the writer/researcher for “Mormons, Missionaries to the World,” a public television documentary (KSL Seattle) that won an honorable mention at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1985. He is an executive producer of “Winter in the Blood,” a feature film based on a novel of the same title by James Welch, the well-known Native American writer.
An associate editor and staff journalist at Pacific News Service, he was also a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies at the University of California Berkeley and the co-author of Points West, a newspaper column and feature writing operation focusing on the American West and the Pacific Basin.
Peter was a co-founder, editor, and staff writer of Leviathan, a journal of political analysis and opinion, and editor and staff writer for The Bulkhead, a newspaper for US servicemen. He taught European social history as a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and helped found the Teaching Assistants’ Association there.
During the 1960s, Peter was a community organizer working in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, an experience that led to his Master’s thesis, “The United Mine Workers of America and the Mechanization of the Coal Industry.
He was also active in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War era. Peter has lectured extensively on the history and future of publishing, San Francisco history and architecture, and the writing experience.
Peter received a B.A. in English literature from Williams College and an M.A. in United States history from the University of Wisconsin (Madison).
