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Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times best selling author. The Los Angeles Times described Frank's writing as, "A rich brew of cross-cultural comedy." The British newspaper the Guardian says: "funny and wonderfully observed."

Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught documentary movie director, a feature film director and producer of four low budget Hollywood features Frank has described as "pretty terrible," and a best selling author of both fiction and nonfiction.



Frank's three semi-biographical novels about growing up in a fundamentalist mission: Portofino, Zermatt, Saving Grandma have a worldwide following and have been translated into nine languages. BABY JACK, a novel about service, sacrifice and the class division between who serves and who does not, was published in October of 2006.

USA TODAY said of BABY JACK;



"The reader marvels at how Schaeffer makes this concise chorus of social conviction moving and memorable..."

Frank's latest book is a memoir, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back has been acclaimed widely. Jane Smiley writing in The Nation (Oct 15, 2007) said: "Crazy for God offers considerable insight into several issues that have bedeviled American life in the past thirty years, and... when taken in conjunction with [Frank Schaeffer's] other works (notably the Calvin Becker Trilogy, Portofino, Zermatt and Saving Grandma), it gives us not only a handle on the mess we are in but also quite a few laughs..."


Joel Brown, writes in the Boston Globe (December 18, 2007) "That Crazy for God isn't just another James Frey-style memoir of personal dysfunction becomes clear with the subtitle, it's alternately hilarious and excruciating."

Jeff Sharlet (a contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine) reviewed Crazy For God in The New Statesman (Oct 29 2007). He wrote: "Crazy for God is a brilliant book, a portrait of fundamentalism painted in broad strokes with streaks of nuance, the twinned coming-of-age story of Frank and the Christian right."

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 (15 comments) SHARE More Sharing Obama vs. FOX President Obama is getting criticism for going after Fox News. I fault the White House too: for not going far enough. The real issue is not Fox's right wing "bias." The real issue is that FOX News seems to be trawling for assassins.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 (84 comments) SHARE More Sharing Breaking The Real "Last Taboo" - The Things No One Dares To Say The last taboo is talking about topics that might really offend. I don't mean the pretend "hot topics" that never offend because the audience they're directed to already agree. I mean topics that could spark authentic outrage in one's own peer group of like minded readers and then maybe a real debate.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (4 comments) SHARE More Sharing The Anatomy Of Republican Cataclysm and Democratic Victory This lifelong Republican believes we count ourselves lucky, dare I say blessed, that Senator Obama has emerged as our next likely president at the very time when what we need most is a reasonable, intelligent, kind, and unflappable leader not driven by ideology but by the desire to govern well and with compassion. The Republicans have led us to the brink. May I say without any intended irony; thank God for Obama.
Thursday, July 3, 2008 (5 comments) SHARE More Sharing Progressives Carping About Obama Becoming Too "Centrist" Are Nuts If Obama wants to make big changes he knows he'll need all Americans on board including people some of his bedrock supporters don't like. That means that angry black men and women and angry white men and women and angry religious men and women and angry secular men and women will either get over their anger and embrace hope and forgiveness of the "other" or lose influence in Obama's America.
Monday, April 14, 2008 (2 comments) SHARE More Sharing Good News For the Democratic Party: The Collapse Of Evangelical-Right Wing Is On The Way -- They Want Change Too Obama has a shot at cornering a sizable chunk of the evangelical vote. If the Dem Party throws away his candidacy on such nonsense (or lets the Clintons and Republicans trash it) the Dems will have wasted a historic opportunity. Why? Because Obama, unlike and Dem on years, is liked by not just many Republicans, but by a growing number of evangelicals. Obama speaks the authentic language of ethical and spiritual leadership
Sunday, March 23, 2008 (36 comments) SHARE More Sharing Obama's Minister "Hates America" But When My Father Said the Same Sort of Things He Became a Hero To The Republicans The hypocrisy of the right attacking Obama, because of his minister's words, is staggering.

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