Jürgen Neffe (born 5 June 1956 in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany[1]) is a German writer.

[2][3] After graduating, Neffe worked as a reporter for various publications, including Nature, GEO, and Der Spiegel.

[1][3][4][5][6][7] In 1991, he won third prize in the Egon Erwin Kisch Awards, which are among the most prestigious awards for print journalism in Germany,[8] for his reportage Der Fluch der guten Tat on a burn unit in Pittsburgh, published in GEO.

[9] In 2005, Neffe published a biography on Albert Einstein, which ranked eighth among non-fiction bestsellers that year in Germany.

Die Fachzeitschrift BuchMarkt bezeichnete das Buch als „Der beste politische Roman des Jahres“ [25] Neffe lives in Berlin.