Billy Lee Brammer (April 21, 1929 – February 11, 1978) was an author, journalist, and political staffer in Texas and Washington, D.C..

After working briefly as a reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Brammer joined the American-Statesman (then called the Austin Statesman), where he won a press award for excellence in writing in 1952.

In 1954, he won the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Contest for a feature sports story written for the same paper.

"[2] He attracted the attention of Texas Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson, who invited him to join his staff.

While employed by Johnson in Washington, D.C., Brammer began working on The Gay Place, his first and only published novel, which is composed of three related novellas: The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper, and Country Pleasures.