Herman Knickerbocker Vielé (January 31, 1856 – December 14, 1908), was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet.

Herman Knickerbocker Vielé was born in New York City on January 31, 1856, the son of Teresa (Griffin) Viele (author of a memoir of army life, Following the Drum) and Egbert Ludovicus Viele, a Union Army officer and later U.S. Representative from New York.

[1] His paternal grandfather John L. Viele was a New York politician, and his brother Francis Vielé-Griffin and sister Emily Vielé Strother were both writers.

[1] The writer Thomas Allibone Janvier considered his first book, The Inn of the Silver Moon, his best work.

[6] Vielé introduced it thus: "Being the interpretation of certain phonic vibragraphs recorded by the Long’s Peak Wireless Installation, now for the first time made public through the courtesy of Professor Caducious, Ph.D., sometime secretary of the Boulder branch of the association for the advancement of interplanetary communication.