Peter Viereck

| occupation = Poet and professor | birth_date = 5 August 1916 | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_date = 13 May 2006 (aged 89) | death_place = South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S. | main_interests = Poetry, politics | influences = | parents = George Sylvester Viereck }} 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''. In 1955 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florence. Provided by Wikipedia