Larry Philip Buttrose (born 16 December 1952) is an Australian writer. He is the author of the novels The Maze of the Muse and Sweet Sentence, and the travel books The King Neptune Day & Night Club, and Cafe Royale (also published as The Blue Man). For the stage he has written Kurtz, his stage adaptation of Heart of Darkness, and a stage adaptation of Don Quixote, as well as co-writing the hit musical Hot Shoe Shuffle.