Willard Francis Motley (July 14, 1909 – March 4, 1965) was an African-American writer. He published a column in the Chicago Defender under the pen-name Bud Biliken. Motley also worked as a freelance writer, and later founded and published the Hull House Magazine and worked in the Federal Writers Project. His first and best known novel was Knock on Any Door (1947).
Archibald John Motley, Jr., the painter, was his uncle. Archibald John Motley III, the (late) archivist at the Chicago Historical Society, was his cousin.
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During the 1930s, Motley rode a bicycle from Chicago to New York City.
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