Charles Palliser (born December 11, 1947, in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American-born and British-based novelist.
Born in New England, Palliser is an American citizen but has lived in the United Kingdom since the age of three.
He has published five novels, which have been translated into a dozen languages; among them French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Greek, Japanese, Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian.
Since 1990, he has written the Introduction to a Penguin Classics edition of the Sherlock Holmes stories; the foreword to a new French translation of Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, published by Éditions Phébus; and other articles on 19th century and contemporary fiction.
In 1991, The Quincunx was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, which is given for the best first novel published in North America.