page_title: List of German Americans
section_title: Authors and writers
hierarchical_section_title: List of German Americans / Art and literature / Authors and writers
caption_attribution_description: Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss) half-length portrait, seated at desk covered with his books / World Telegram &amp; Sun photo by Al Ravenna.
context_page_description: German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved 1840–1900, when Germans formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering the Irish and English. Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start afresh in the New World. California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone. More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities. This list also includes people of German Jewish descent.
context_section_description: Kathy Acker – author
  Sade Baderinwa – news reporter-journalist
  Matthias Bartgis – printer and publisher
  L. Frank Baum – author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  Vicki Baum – writer
  Salvador Brau – journalist, poet, writer
  Gene Brewer – author of the K-PAX series of novels
  Charles Bukowski – poet and novelist
  Caspar Butz – journalist, politician
  Ellen DeGeneres – television
  George DiCaprio – writer, editor, and major west coast underground comic book distributor
  Theodore Dreiser – author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life
  Gottfried Duden – travel author
  Roger Ebert – Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, journalist, and screenwriter
  Martin Ebon – author of non-fiction books from the paranormal to politics
  Max Ehrmann – widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired").
  Charles Follen – poet and patriot
  Cornelia Funke – author
  James Grauerholz – writer, editor-in-chief, bibliographer, and literary executor of the estate of William S. Burroughs
  Bob Gretz – award-winning sportswriter and broadcaster
  Hans Halberstadt – author, filmmaker, historian and photographer
  Geoffrey Hartman – literary theorist
  Ursula Hegi – novelist
  Patricia Highsmith – novelist known for her psychological thrillers
  Friedrich Hirth – sinologue
  Max Hofmann – correspondent
  Stephen King – author
  Chuck Klosterman – writer
  Siegfried Kracauer – film historian, sociologist and author
  Herbert Arthur Krause – historian
  D.L. Lang – poet laureate of Vallejo, California
  Fritz Leiber – science fiction writer
  Walter Lippman – writer, journalist, and political commentator
  H. L. Mencken – journalist
  Henry Miller – writer and painter
  Anna Balmer Myers – author of Mennonite (Pennsylvania Dutch) novels
  Oswald Ottendorfer – journalist associated with the development of the German-language New Yorker Staats-Zeitung into a major newspaper
  Sylvia Plath – poet, novelist, and short story writer
  Erich Maria Remarque – German-born author, naturalized United States citizen
  Conrad Richter – Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
  Mary Roberts Rinehart – author
  Hope Rockefeller Aldrich – journalist
  Irma S. Rombauer – author of The Joy of Cooking
  Diane Sawyer – journalist
  Jack Schaefer – author of Shane
  Paul Schrader – screenwriter, film director, and film critic
  Maria Shriver – journalist and author
  Peter Schweizer – author of Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy and Clinton Cash
  Ernest Schwiebert – angling writer
  Charles Sealsfield – pseudonym of Austrian American author of novels and travelogues Carl (or Karl) Anton Postl
  Mona Simpson – novelist and university professor, biological younger sister of the late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs
  Curt Siodmak – screenwriter
  Nicholas Sparks – author and screenwriter
  Gertrude Stein – author, of Jewish descent
  John Steinbeck – Nobel prize-winning author, one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century
  Dr. Seuss (born Theodor Seuss Geisel) – writer and cartoonist
  Henry F. Urban – journalist, author
  Henry Villard – journalist
  Kurt Vonnegut – novelist
  Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff – writer, socialite
  George Weigel – author; political and social activist
caption: Dr. Seuss
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