Alan Marshall , (2 May 1902 – 21 January 1984) was an Australian writer, story teller, humanist and social documenter.
He received the Australian Literature Society Short Story Award three times, the first in 1933.
His best known book, I Can Jump Puddles (1955) is the first of a three-part autobiography.
The other two volumes are This is the Grass (1962) and In Mine Own Heart (1963).