Jeffrey Frank is the author of four novels and the co-author of a translation.

He published The Columnist in 2001, and Bad Publicity in early 2004. Both books are set in mid-to-late Twentieth-Century Washington. Trudy Hopedale, the third part of the Washington Trilogy, came out in July, 2007, from Simon & Schuster. Bookforum describes the books as "dark, hilarious stories of motion (and stasis) on DC's social ladder." He lives in Manhattan with Diana. They have one son.