Quentin Anderson (July 21, 1912 – February 18, 2003) was an American literary critic and cultural historian at Columbia University.
The son of playwright Maxwell Anderson, he moved with his father to Palo Alto, California and then San Francisco after the latter was dismissed from his high school teaching job for his pacifist views.
He studied with Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling at Columbia University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1937.
He earned his Master of Arts from Harvard University in 1945 before returning to Columbia to complete his PhD in 1953.
He was named a full professor at the Columbia University English Department in 1961 and he chaired a disciplinary committee following the protests of 1968.