Peter Viereck

Peter Viereck
Born	5 August 1916 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	13 May 2006 (aged 89) South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Poet and professor
Parent	George Sylvester Viereck
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Fulbright Scholar
Academic background
Education	Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD)
Influences	Babbitt Stevenson
Academic work
Discipline	History
Main interests	Poetry, politics

Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (August 5, 1916 – May 13, 2006) was an American writer, poet and professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1949 for the collection Terror and Decorum.^[1][2] In 1955 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florence.