Austen Lake (May 23, 1895 – June 9, 1964) was an American writer, war correspondent during World War II, and a sports and general columnist for the Boston Evening Transcript and the Boston Record-American-Sunday Advertiser, in a career spanning more than 40 years until his death in 1964.
"Galley Slave" (1965) is an anthology of his columns including writings on his many visits to Ireland.
He played professional football for Buffalo and Philadelphia and had a tryout to play catcher for the New York Yankees before going to Europe during World War I where he served with the French Ambulance Corps before the United States entered the war.
When the United States entered the war, he became a member of the newly formed United States Tank Corps, earning five battle stars and becoming a life member of "The Little Red Tank Society", a group formed by America's first tankers.
After the war, he covered the 1958 Lebanon crisis and wrote a popular series on Ireland.