Eric Miles Williamson (born June 20, 1961) is an American novelist and literary critic, former member of the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and former editor of American Book Review, Boulevard, and Texas Review.
A former student of the fiction writer Donald Barthelme, Williamson has met critical success as a novelist.
On his book, East Bay Grease, a journalist at the New York Times wrote, the "prose cuts loose in torrid rhythms that evoke the peril and exuberance of jazz.
"[2] Williamson is a 1979 graduate of Pacific High School in San Leandro, California, and played trumpet in its jazz band.
In East Bay Grease, he gives the real names of many of the members of that band, although the novel places them in a fictional junior high school.