Scott Timberg (February 15, 1969 – December 10, 2019) was an American journalist, culture writer, and editor.

Timberg spent the longest period of his life in Los Angeles, with a year in Athens, Georgia in 2015.

[6] Timberg's book Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in 2015.

[9] The New Yorker called it "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life".

[10] Timberg married Sara Scribner, a school librarian and journalist; the couple had a son.