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Peter Stephan Jungk

Biography

Peter Stephan Jungk

Peter Stephan Jungk was born in Los Angeles, raised in several European cities, and now lives in Paris. A former screenwriting fellow of the American Film Institute, he is the author in German of eight books, including the acclaimed biography Franz Werfel: A Life from Prague to Hollywood (Grove Press, 1990) and the novels Tigor (Handsel Books, 2004), a finalist for the British Foreign Book Award, and The Perfect American (Handsel Books, 2004), a fictional biography of Walt Disney’s last months, which Philip Glass is adapting into an opera.

Peter Stephan Jungk

Books by Peter Stephan Jungk