Harold Jaffe (July 8, 1938 – June 23, 2024) was an American writer of novels,[1] short fiction, drama, and essays.

His works have been translated into 15 languages, including German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian.

Jaffe was also a Professor of Creative Writing, English, and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.

The 2004 issue of The Journal of Experimental Fiction called “The Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe”[4] was devoted to his writings.

Jaffe was well known for his technique of docufiction, a literary form that treats and fictionalizes news reports and other published data to expose their philosophical underpinnings, ambiguities, nuances, and hidden agendas.