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 ''Terror and Decorum'', a collection of poetry. In 1955 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florence. Provided by Wikipedia