Robert Kanigel (born May 28, 1946) is an American biographer and science writer, known as the author of seven books and more than 400 articles, essays, and reviews.

Born in Brooklyn, Kanigel graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, and received a B.S.

This was followed by The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan in 1991; The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency in 1999;[2] High Season: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years in 2002; and Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes in 2007.

[5] While doing research on one of the subjects of the book, George Derwent Thomson, Kanigel came across the ideas of Milman Parry, the "Darwin of Homeric Studies".

Kanigel followed his interest and wrote a biography released in 2021 as Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry.