Edward Payson Dutton (January 1, 1831 in Keene, New Hampshire[2] – 1923) was a prominent American book publisher.

The business sold fiction and non-fiction, and within a short time expanded into the selling of children's literature.

In 1906, Dutton struck what proved to be a significant deal with the English publishing company of J. M. Dent to be the American distributor of the Everyman's Library series of classic literature reprints.

Edward Dutton died in 1923, aged 92, but his company continued to flourish and today is an imprint of the Penguin Group.

In 1906, Dutton made a deal with English publishing company J. M. Dent to be the American distributor of the Everyman's Library series of classic literature reprints.