He's a jew, ofcourse: >His father, Donald Edwin King, a traveling vacuum salesman after returning from World War II, was born in Indiana with the surname Pollock, changing it to King as an adult. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King#Early_life >jewish (ashkenazic): variant of Polak , a surname referring to a jew from Poland. https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname?surname=POLLACK#:~:text=Jewish%20(Ashkenazic)%3A%20variant%20of,to%20a%20Jew%20from%20Poland.