William Raymond Manchester (1 April 1922–1 Juni 2004)[2] adalah seorang pengarang, biografer dan sejarawan asal Amerika. Ia adalah pengarang 18 buku yang diterjemahkan ke dalam lebih dari 20 bahasa.[3] Ia dianugerahi National Humanities Medal dan Abraham Lincoln Literary Award.
↑According to one writer, "Scholars generally disliked the biographies by Manchester. They were deemed superficial, anecdotal, hyperbolic, and hagiographic." Eugene L. Rasor, Winston S. Churchill, 1874–1965: A Comprehensive Historiography and Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press. 2000, p. 62.
