Earl Conrad (17 December 1906 – 17 January 1986), birth name Cohen, was an American author who penned at least twenty works of biography, history, and criticism, including books in collaboration.
Conrad was born to Eli and Minnie Cohen in Auburn, New York, into a Jewish family with nine siblings.
He wished to be a writer from a young age, and his early experience included a stint at the Auburn Advertiser-Journal.
As the Harlem Bureau Chief for The Chicago Defender, an African American title, he investigated lynchings in the south.
In 1950, Conrad co-wrote Patterson's memoir, Scottsboro Boy, about his experience as one of the group of nine men accused of rape in Alabama in 1931.