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Jefferson Flanders (born 1955) is an American author and independent journalist, best known for his historical fiction set in the early Cold War.

Biography
Flanders was born in Montclair, New Jersey. His parents, Stephen Carver Flanders and Carol Marie Orr met in the newsroom of the New York Herald Tribune. His sister, Julie Christina Flanders, is a poet and the lyricist for October Project. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in history and literature, where he wrote for the Harvard Crimson and Harvard Advocate.

His first novel, Herald Square, set in 1949, focused on Soviet espionage in the U.S. It was praised by Huffington Post and the Washington Times. The next book in the First Trumpet trilogy, The North Building, dealt with British double agent Kim Philby. It was praised by ForeWord Reviews. The final novel in the series, The Hill of Three Borders, was centered on the Hungarian uprising against the Russians in 1956.

In 2014, Flanders began a new historical fiction series, the Tarkingtons, with The Republic of Virtue, which received acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, and followed it with The Boston Trader in 2015. 8 As a journalist and columnist, Flanders has written for newspapers, magazines, and websites, as well as teaching as an adjunct in the journalism department of New York University.

Novels

 * Herald Square (2012)
 * The North Building (2013)
 * The Hill of Three Borders (2014)
 * The Republic of Virtue (2014)
 * The Boston Trader (2015)

Short fiction

 * Café Carolina and Other Stories (2012)
 * The Girl from Recoleta and Other Stories of Love (2014)