Elizabeth Crook (born April 9, 1959) is an American novelist specializing in historical fiction.

Her nonfiction work has been published in anthologies and periodicals such as Texas Monthly and Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

[1] Born in Houston, Texas, Crook lived in Nacogdoches and San Marcos, Texas, with her parents, brother and sister until 1966 when the family moved to Washington D.C., where her father, William H. Crook, was director of VISTA for Lyndon Johnson.

She is a member of Western Writers of America and was selected the honored writer for 2006 Texas Writers' Month, joining previous honorees O. Henry, J. Frank Dobie, John Graves, Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, Katherine Anne Porter, Elmer Kelton, Liz Carpenter, Sarah Bird, James Michener, and Horton Foote.

Two of Crook's novels (Promised Lands and The Raven's Bride) were edited at Doubleday by Jacqueline Onassis.