| General info : | | Craig Vetter (born Peter Simmons in June 3rd of 1942 - died April 10th 2017 (aged 74)) was a journalist.
Craig was a writer first for the Bellarmine College Prep paper, and the University of San Francisco Foghorn and Gaviota, and he went on from there to Sunset magazine and eventually as the first Staff Writer for Playboy magazine.
At Playboy he often did the Playboy Interview, most notably the one with his friend Gonzo Journalist Hunter Thompson for the November 1974 edition of Playboy.
Born Peter Simmons in June of 1942, Craig never knew his father Robert Simmons. His Dad was a Naval Officer on the Destroyer USS Longshaw which went aground off of Okinawa in March of 1945, and was subsequently sink with heavy loss of life - including his Dad.
Craig and his younger sister Pam Vetter Bouton were adopted by Roger Vetter who married his Mom, Winifred Sandoe in Palo Alto in 1948. They dropped the name Peter as well as Simmons because they thought answering to Peter Vetter would leave him open to taunting at school.
Along the way he married Sharon Wann, had a daughter Rebecca, and a son Peter. Craig was a marrying man, and after Sharon he was in and out of marriage and relationships, but he finally settled down about 25 years ago when he married Barbara Biederman.
He taught short story writing at Northwestern for a while. In the last two years of his life he wrote a nonfiction novella about a New Zealand saga entitled "Murder in the Rough and Tumble". | |
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