Drunkard's Walk is a science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl.

It was originally published in paperback by Ballantine Books in 1960 and early in 1961 by Gnome Press in a hardback edition of 3,000 copies.

The novel tells the story of a math professor who struggles against urges to commit suicide.

He was a well-liked college-on-TV lecturer who offered the public a way to improve their meager living standards in the crowded future world of 2200.

In fact, a mysterious foe is trying to cause the professor to die, and this villain plans to increase the death toll into the millions.