Peter Balint

Peter Balint was born in Budapest, Hungary nine months before the end of WW II. His father was killed 2 weeks before the end of the war by the NAZIs at Mauthausen. In 1946 his widowed mother along with her daughter and her son fled as refugees to Germany where he was raised until he was 13 years old. He immigrated with his mother to the United States at 13, eventually graduated from high school and college, and served for three years on active duty as a commissioned officer in the US Army. Following that service he had a career both in the United States and internationally. He and his wife have three college educated children with masters degrees. Their two daughters are published authors and one is serving in the US Congress. He has been working on his memoir/biography with fits and starts for over twenty years.