Basil MacDonald Hastings (20 September 1881 – 21 February 1928) was an English author, journalist, and playwright.

[2][3] His nephew- son of his elder brother, Major Lewis Aloysius Macdonald Hastings (1880-1966), a farmer in Southern Rhodesia, where he had been a diamond prospector, political organizer, and served in the Cape Mounted Police- was the politician Stephen Hastings.

During the First World War, Hastings served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, having previously been a corporal in the King's Royal Rifle Corps; he founded and edited the RAF journal, The Fledgling (later Roosters and Fledglings).

Hastings produced a successful adaptation of Conrad's novel Victory performed at the Globe Theatre in London in 1919.

[1][12] Hastings married Wilhelmina ("Billie") Creusen White, of a Catholic family from Peckham, South London, some of the members of which subsequently "developed social pretensions" and treated her with condescension, according to her grandson Max Hastings.