Teddy Wayne (born 1979) is an American novelist and short story writer whose books include The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (2013) and Loner (2016).

During graduate school, Wayne began writing a novel about a Qatarian computer programmer whose moral code is challenged when he joins a Wall Street investment firm.

"[3] He researched Jonny Valentine by poring over celebrity magazines and reading biographies of former child stars such as Jackie Coogan, Tatum O'Neal, and Drew Barrymore.

[4] His 2016 campus novel Loner tells the story of David Federman, a Harvard freshmen and a victim of toxic masculinity who begins stalking one of his female classmates.

"[8] In May 2024, he published The Winner about a young law student from a poor background in Yonkers, who accepts a summer job as a tennis coach in the wealthy community of Cutters Neck, Massachusetts.