Peter Neagoe

Peter Neagoe (7 November 1881 in Odorhei, Austria-Hungary – 28 October 1960 in Woodstock, New York) was an American writer and painter.

After attending primary and secondary school in Săliște, Sibiu and Blaj, he moved to Bucharest in 1900 where he studied at the Romanian Academy of Fine Arts and was a colleague of Constantin Brâncuși.

There he came into contact with Dadaist and Surrealist painters of the time and was reunited with Brâncuși, to whom he dedicated his book The Saint of Montparnasse (published posthumously in 1965).

In 1933 Neagoe returned to the United States, publishing two novels in the next three years and a volume of stories on topics of Transylvanian and Romanian history.

The English Department at Syracuse offered a competitive creative writing award for graduate students in his name.