Jeannette Mirsky Ginsburg (September 3, 1903 – March 10, 1987) was an American writer who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947 for her biographical writings on the history of exploration.

[1] Her brother was Alfred Mirsky (1900–1974), a cell biologist involved in the discovery of DNA.

[1] She did graduate work in anthropology at Columbia University with Franz Boas and Margaret Mead.

[1] Mirsky traveled extensively to access rare papers, maps, and artifacts related to her research.

Because of her interest in the far north, she was invited to give the keynote lecture at Alaska's Festival of the Arts in 1966.