George Szanto (born 1940) is an American-Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, and scholar.
His published work includes more than a dozen novels and short-story collections as well as plays, full-length works of literary criticism, mysteries, and a memoir.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he won the Hugh MacLennan Award for Fiction in 1995 for his novel Friends & Marriages.
During his academic career, Szanto taught comparative and dramatic literature at the University of California, San Diego, and comparative literature at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
[1] Four novels, co-authored with Sandy Frances Duncan, comprise the Islands Investigations International Mysteries, as follows: