Peter Stephan Jungk (born December 19, 1952, in Santa Monica, California) is an American German-speaking novelist.
In 1973 Jungk worked with the theater of Basel as an assistant director.
From 1974 to 1976 he studied at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
[1] Since 1988 he has been living in Paris with his wife, photographer Lillian Birnbaum [de].
In January 2013 the opera The Perfect American by Philip Glass, based on Jungk's novel Der König von Amerika, premiered at the Teatro Real in Madrid.