Larry Buttrose 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. 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. With Saroo Brierley, he wrote the memoir 'A Long Way Home' and now adapted into a feature film LION. He is a lecturer, Screenwriting at New York University, Sydney Campus.