Lion Country is a novel by Frederick Buechner, and the first in the Book of Bebb series.

Lion Country was written in 1971, and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1972.

The narrator, Antonio Parr, is a writer who attempts a piece of investigative journalism.

Parr tries to expose Leo Bebb, a clergyman who runs a diploma mill, as a con-man.

Cynthia Ozick calls Lion Country and its sequel, Open Heart, "God-hungry comic novels speckled with dying and laughter.