Laura Lemay (born August 1, 1967) is an American author of technical books, most notably starting the SAMS Publishing "Teach Yourself" series.

Beginning in the 1990s, she authored a series of instructional texts on web publishing, HTML, and Java.

Her second book, Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, promised to do the same for prospective Java users, and her 1997 book The Official Guide to Marimba's Castanet focused on push media.

[1] 1997's Laura Lemay's Web Workshop: Javascript received positive reviews, and was praised as a "fine book" that came with helpful software.

[1] Lemay lives in the Santa Cruz hills with her husband Eric.