Peter Moruzzi

Historian Peter Moruzzi was born in Concord, Massachusetts, raised in Hawaii, and now resides in Palm Springs. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and later attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. In 1999 he founded the Palm Springs Modern Committee (PS ModCom), an architectural preservation group. Moruzzi is the author of Greetings from Los Angeles, Palm Springs Paradise: Vintage Photographs from America’s Desert Playground, Classic Dining: Discovering America’s Finest Mid-Century Restaurants, Palm Springs Holiday: A Vintage Tour from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea, and Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground.