Literature
- Jeffrey Archer, English author and former politician
- Jeffrey Brown, American comic book writer and artist
- Jeffrey Carver, American science fiction author
- Jeffrey Daniels (author), Chicago-raised African American poet, artist, and professor
- Jeffrey Eugenides, American novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish origins
- Jeffrey Ford, American novelist and story writer
- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Sanskrit specialist and author who trained as a psychoanalyst in Toronto
- Jeffrey Rowland, American webcomic artist
- Jeffrey Simpson, American-born Canadian journalist and national affairs columnist with The Globe and Mail newspaper
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