Richard Suskind (May 2, 1925 – September 14, 1999) was a children's author who participated with author Clifford Irving in creating a fraudulent autobiography of the reclusive entrepreneur Howard Hughes.
Suskind was incarcerated for five months of a six-month prison sentence for his role in collaborating with Irving on the hoax.
Richard Suskind was born in New York City and attended public schools there.
In 1943, he joined the Army and served in the 8th Armored Division as a machine gunner in the Battle of the Bulge, in the Netherlands and in Germany.
A writer since the age of fifteen, Suskind was the author of twelve books and more than one hundred articles and short stories.