Lawrence Millman (born January 13, 1946, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an adventure travel writer and mycologist from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[1][2] He is the author of eighteen books, including Goodbye, Ice: Arctic Poems, Fungipedia, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Northern Latitudes, Last Places, An Evening Among Headhunters, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Lost in the Arctic, and Fascinating Fungi of New England.
His work has also appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Adventure, the Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated.
He has discovered a previously unknown lake in Borneo, and there is a mountain named after him outside Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland.
Millman was close friends with the outdoor writer Elliott Merrick (1905-1997).