Larry Philip Buttrose (born 16 December 1952) is an Australian writer, journalist and academic.
He is the ghostwriter of the Saroo Brierley memoir A Long Way Home (adapted for the screen as the major international feature film Lion).
He is also the author of the novels The Maze of the Muse and Sweet Sentence, and the travel books The King Neptune Day & Night Club, and Cafe Royale (also published as The Blue Man).
For the stage he co-wrote the hit musical Hot Shoe Shuffle, as well Kurtz, his stage adaptation of Heart of Darkness, and a stage adaptation of Don Quixote.
For the screen he co-wrote the feature Gino and the feature documentary Movietone Memories, and is currently working on the screenplay for Hicks, about the life of Australian inmate in Guantanamo, David Hicks.
He teaches Screenwriting at New York University’s Sydney campus at The Rocks.