Peter Dale Scott | |
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Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | January 11, 1929
Occupation | Poet, Academic, Diplomat |
Education | McGill University University College, Oxford Institut d'Etudes Politiques |
Genre | Politics, Deep State, Poetry |
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Notable awards | Lannan Literary Award (2002) |
Spouse | Ronna Kabatznick |
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Peter Dale Scott (born 11 January 1929)[1] is a Canadian-born poet, academic, and former diplomat. A son of the Canadian poet and constitutional lawyer F. R. Scott and painter Marian Dale Scott, he is best known for his critiques of deep politics and American foreign policy since the era of the Vietnam War. Notably, he was a signatory in 1968 of the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, in which participants vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[2]
Although trained as a political scientist, Scott holds an atypical academic appointment as a poet-scholar in an English department.