Fritz Peters (American, 1913 - 1979) was a writer, seen in this Man Ray portrait as a student at the Gurdjieff school. Born into a troubled home, he ended up in the care of his aunt Magaret Anderson, who enrolled him at the school in 1924, when he was 11. He returned to the United States to live with his mother and step-father in 1929, only to find that his mother was still unable to care for him which left him to care for himself. He was drafted into combat in World War II, and at the end of the war found healing from his war-incurred traumas through Gurdjieff, with whom he reunited in Paris. He went on to publish several books which were autobiographical and fictionalized accounts of his dealing with Gurdjieff, his homosexuality, and his mother’s mental health crises.