Gwen Leys Davenport (October 3, 1909 – March 23, 2002)[1] was an American comic novelist.

Gwen Leys was born on October 3, 1909 in Colón in the Panama Canal Zone, the daughter of Vice Admiral James Farquharson Leys, a surgeon with the United States Navy, and Gwen Wigley Leys.

In 1937, she married stockbroker John Davenport and they settled in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

[1][2] She is best known for the comic novel Belvedere (1947), about an eccentric, self-absorbed writer named Lynn Belvedere who goes to work for a suburban family during World War II.

[1][2] Gwen Davenport died on 23 March 2002 in Louisville.