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Peter Viereck

Peter Viereck, American poet and academic (died 2006)

Born
August 5, 1916
Died
May 13, 2006
Zodiac sign
Leo
Birth year
1916

About Peter Viereck

Peter Robert Edwin Viereck 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. Reiss, Tom. "The First Conservative: How Peter Viereck Inspired—and Lost—a Movement." The New Yorker 24 (2005). Viereck was prolific in his writing from 1938, publishing collections of poems, some first published in Poetry Magazine. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1949 for the collection Terror and Decorum.

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Peter Viereck timeline

  1. Viereck was prolific in his writing from 1938, publishing collections of poems, some first published in Poetry Magazine.
  2. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1949 for Terror and Decorum, a collection of poetry.
  3. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1949 for the collection Terror and Decorum.
  4. Reiss, Tom. "The First Conservative: How Peter Viereck Inspired—and Lost—a Movement." The New Yorker 24 (2005).

The world when Peter Viereck was born

Peter Viereck was born in 1916. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1916

  • Best-selling book"Seventeen" – Booth Tarkington

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentGeorgia Tech defeats Cumberland 222-0, most lopsided football game ever
  • Top headlineBattle of the Somme — 1 million casualties
  • Technology milestoneTanks first used in warfare
  • Notable inventionMilitary tanks
  • World population~1.76B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population99.6M

1916 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Peter Viereck's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19162026
Population99.6M341 million

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