- Abandoned a promising Mixed Martial Arts career to become a writer at the insistence of novelist Cormac McCarthy.
- Has won two regional pie baking competitions and placed top three in an astonishing seventeen others. Credits his success to a Kugel pie recipe his bubbe bequeathed him in her will.
- Peter's first paid writing gig was as a teen, when a neighbor who knew Chuck Woolery gave him $3 per joke (a princely sum at the time) to come up with "adlibs" for Woolery's Love Connection hosting gig.
- When writing the movie "21," learned to stack poker chips from professional Vegas chip stacking legend Salty Rains.
- Married to writer/producer DeShawn Schneider.
- Goes by the nickname "Gator", which he earned in Hawaii.
- Decided to choose a career in show business when the man who provided the original voice of the animated owl from the Tootsie Roll commercials gave a speech at his elementary school.
- Is a distant relative of Sally Hemmings, whom he has cited as being an influence upon his writing.
- Younger brother of actor and fitness personality Jake Steinfeld.
- Father of actress and singer Hailee Steinfeld.
- Speaks limited Spanish.
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