American poet
This article is about the American writer. For the German city, see Viereck.
Peter Viereck | |
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| Born | 5 August 1916 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 13 May 2006 (aged 89) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and professor |
| Parent | George Sylvester Viereck |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Influences | |
| 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.
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