Andrew Shaffer

Andrew Shaffer is the New York Times bestselling author of the Obama Biden Mysteries from Quirk Books, including the instant national bestseller Hope Never Dies. His latest novel is Feel the Bern: A Bernie Sanders Mystery (Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House). In 2013, Shaffer published Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors (Harper Perennial), a nonfiction look at the lives of some of the writing world’s most scandalous authors, from Oscar Wilde to Ernest Hemingway. As an artist, Shaffer’s illustrations and designs have been featured in magazines such as Heavy Metal and FHM and on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. An Iowa native, Shaffer lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, novelist and screenwriter Meg Shaffer, and two cats, MoonPie and Sweet Guillermo Jones. The cats are unpublished.