Samuel Griswold Goodrich (August 19, 1793 – May 9, 1860), better known under his pseudonym Peter Parley, was an American author.

His series, beginning in 1827 under the name of Peter Parley, embraced geography, biography, history, science and miscellaneous tales.

An English writer, George Mogridge, also used the name Peter Parley, raising objections from Goodrich, who had the prior claim.

He was active in Whig politics, and was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1836, and of the state Senate in 1837, his competitor in the last election being Alexander Hill Everett, and in 1851-1853 he was consul at Paris, where he remained until 1855, taking advantage of his stay to have several of his works translated into French.

[2] He returned to the United States, and, in 1859, he published Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom.