List of Czech Americans - Creative Writing

Creative Writing

• Miles J. Breuer, trained as physician, an early science fiction writer.
• Theodore Dreiser, of Moravian mother, a notable American writer in the naturalism movement.
• James Thomas Flexner, of Bohemian ancestry, one of American foremost men of letters, especially noted for his four-volume Biography of George Washington.
• Patricia Hampl, writer; one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.
• Arnost Lustig, a notable writer of the Holocaust.
• Frederic Prokosch, a novelist and poet.
• Charles Sealsfield (pseudonym of Karl Anton Postl), author of romantic novels with American backgrounds and travelogues.
• Clifford Donald Simak, an American science fiction writer of Czech ancestry.
• Josef Skvorecky, writer.
• Nicholas Sparks, an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter of Czech ancestry.
• Joseph Wechsberg, a free-lance writer associated with the New Yorker magazine.
• Franz Werfel, a famous novelist, playwright, and poet, known especially for his novel, Song of Bernadette.