Peter Stead FLSW (born 1943) is a Welsh writer, broadcaster and historian.
[1] Stead was born in 1943 in Barry, Wales, and attended grammar schools at Barry and Gowerton.
A graduate of Swansea University, he was subsequently a visiting Fulbright scholar at Wellesley College, and at the University of North Carolina.
He is Chairman of the Dylan Thomas Literary Prize,[2] and along with the late Patrick Hannan, Stead has been a member of the Welsh team in the radio series Round Britain Quiz for several years.
In 2013, Stead was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.