Marshall Bolton Frady (1940 – March 9, 2004) was an American journalist and author particularly known for his work on the African-American civil rights movement in the American South. In 1968, he published Wallace, a controversial biography of George Wallace, later described by contemporary Marc Cooper as "an instant classic". His articles appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Life and Harper's, and he contributed to the American Broadcasting Company's news series Close Up and Nightline.