George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 - March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and pro-German propagandist. George Viereck began writing poetry when he was eleven. His heroes were Jesus Christ, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Oscar Wilde. In 1896, Louis Viereck emigrated to the United States, his U. S.-born wife Laura and their twelve-year-old son George followed in 1897. While still in college, in 1904, George Sylvester Viereck, with the help of literary critic Ludwig Lewisohn, published his first collection of poems. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1906. The next year his collection Nineveh and Other Poems (1907) won Viereck national fame.