Walker Hamilton (born 1934 in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire; died February 1969) was a Scottish writer known for the 1968 novella All the Little Animals.
He was the son of a coal-miner who left school at fifteen to do National Service, which did not last long due to poor health.
All the Little Animals is a dark and hard to categorise story about a mentally disabled 31-year-old man-child who runs away from his abusive stepfather and strikes up an unlikely friendship with a strange old man who buries roadkill he finds in the Cornish country lanes.
The original edition's blurb announced that: "A Dragon's Life is as unclassifiable a novel as was All the Little Animals, and is likely to be as successful.
In 1998, All the Little Animals was adapted for film, starring John Hurt and Christian Bale and directed by Jeremy Thomas,.