John Robin Jenkins OBE (11 September 1912 – 24 February 2005) was a Scottish writer of 30 published novels, the most celebrated being The Cone Gatherers.

Upon release of his first novel, So Gaily Sings the Lark (also derived from his conscientious objector experience) in 1950, he adopted the pen name 'Robin Jenkins'.

[5] His best-known novel, The Cone Gatherers, is based on his forestry work as a conscientious objector and is often studied in Scottish schools.

While The Cone Gatherers has been criticised as being devoid of any real sense of place, other novels such as The Thistle and the Grail, his 1954 football story, paint vivid pictures of more accessible settings.

His writing typically touches on many themes, including morality, the struggle between good and evil, war, class and social justice.