Walter Rollin Brooks (January 9, 1886 – August 17, 1958) was an American writer, known for his children's books about Freddy the Pig and the other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the Bean Farm in upstate New York, and also for his short stories about Mister Ed the talking horse, made into a television show after his death.

He attended college at the University of Rochester and subsequently studied homeopathic medicine in New York City.

He found employment with an advertising agency in Utica, and then "retired" in 1911, evidently because he came into a considerable inheritance.

Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised Freddy and the Spaceship because it "offers wit, sound structural plotting, genuine character-humor, and admirable English prose".

[3] In 2009, Overlook Press published Talking Animals and Others: The Life and Work of Walter R. Brooks, Creator of Freddy the Pig by Michael Cart ISBN 1-59020-170-1.