Jeffrey Nesbit

Who is Jeffrey Nesbit?

Jeff Nesbit is an American author. His latest novel—PEACE, by Summerside Press—begins the day that Israel decides to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, and explores what might happen next. Nesbit is the author of 18 inspirational novels such as The Insider, Ryun's Story and The Sioux Society with Tyndale, Zondervan, Thomas Nelson, Hodder & Stoughton, Harold Shaw and Victor Books.

He was former Vice President Dan Quayle's communications director at the White House, and a senior public affairs official in the U.S. Senate and federal agencies such as the FDA. Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler credited Nesbit with convincing the FDA to regulate the tobacco industry in the early 1990s. Nesbit was also a national journalist with Knight-Ridder, ABC News' Satellite News Channels, nationally syndicated columnist Jack Anderson and others, and managed his own public affairs consulting company. He also served as the Director of the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at the National Science Foundation.

He and Ramona Tucker co-founded OakTara Publishers, an inspirational fiction publishing house, in 2006.