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Frank Schaeffer

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Frank Schaeffer (born August 3 1952), an American author, film director, and speaker, is currently most famous for his Military Trilogy. The three books are about the present day U.S. Marine Corps and how the lives of the Marines and their families have been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The first book was written with Schaeffer’s son John who joined the Marines straight out of high school.

Schaeffer is also well known for the Calvin Becker Trilogy. The three critically acclaimed novels are about a young boy named Calvin Becker who grows up in a strict, fundamentalist missionary home in Switzerland. The books are very controversial in that the characters are similar to Schaeffer’s real family, which include his parents, Francis Schaeffer and Edith Schaeffer, who founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland. Schaeffer however does have a disclaimer in the front of some of the books published stating that the characters “are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.” Many reviewers have hailed the books as being very funny and entertaining, and they have been translated into eight languages.

Writings

Most Current Listed First

  • AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country (with Kathy Roth-Douquet), New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
  • Voices From the Front: Letters Home From American's Military Family, New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2004. (Third of Military Trilogy)
  • Faith of Our Sons: Voices From the American Homefront - The Wartime Diary of a Marine's Father, New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2004. (Second of Military Trilogy)
  • Zermatt: A Novel, New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2003. (Third of Calvin Becker Trilogy)
  • Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the U.S. Marine Corps (with son John Schaeffer), New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2002. (First of Military Trilogy)
  • Saving Grandma: A Novel, New York: Berkley Books, 1997. (Second of Calvin Becker Trilogy)
  • Letters to Father Aristotle, Salisbury, MA:Regina Orthodox Press, 1995.
  • Dancing Alone: The Quest for Orthodox Faith in the Age of False Religion, Brookline, MA: Holy Cross, 1994.
  • Portofino: A Novel, New York: Macmillan, 1992. (First of Calvin Becker Trilogy)
  • Sham Pearls For Real Swine, Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1990.
  • Is Capitalism Christian? (Editor), Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1985.
  • Bad News For Modern Man, Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1984.
  • A Modest Proposal (with Harold Fickett), Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1984.
  • A Time For Anger: The Myth of Neutrality, Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1982.
  • Addicted to Mediocrity: 20th Century Christians and the Arts, Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1982.
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