Jeffrey Frank

Jeffrey Frank is the author of four novels, many magazine articles, and the co-author of a translation. He is completing a narrative history--Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage--an exploration of the relationship between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon that Simon and Schuster will publish in January.

His Washington Trilogy--The Columnist, Bad Publicity, and Trudy Hopedale-- appeared between 2001 and 2007. Bookforum describes these novels, set in mid-to-late Twentieth Century Washington, as "dark, hilarious stories of motion (and stasis) on DC's social ladder." An early novel, The Creep, set in the New York of the 1960s, is no longer in print, but continues to find readers. Daniel Clowes (Ice Haven) wrote in the Boston Globe that “once I started reading it I couldn't stop."

A Danish speaker, he collaborated with his Danish-born wife, Diana Crone Frank, on the widely praised The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation From the Danish, which was published in the United States and England. He wrote the foreword to the University of Chicago Press's re-issue of Peter De Vries's The Blood of the Lamb.

Jeffrey Frank has worked as an editor and writer at The Washington Star, where he was a member of the editorial board, and The Washington Post, where he was deputy editor of Outlook. For more than thirteen years he was a senior editor at The New Yorker and a contributor to the magazine. He lives in Manhattan with Diana. They have one son.