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Guy Lawson (born 26 January 1963) is a Canadian American journalist and true crime writer who has been published in Harper's, GQ, the New York Times, and Rolling Stone.

Lawson was born in Toronto, Canada to expatriate Australian and Kiwi parents. After his parents divorced, he lived with his mother for a period of time before moving to Saskatchewan to rejoin his father, a journalist and writer, and then to Perth, Western Australia in 1981. He attended the University of Western Australia before attending law school in Cambridge, England. He briefly worked as an attorney on Wall Street in New York City in the 1990s before transitioning to journalism.

Lawson's first journalism job came as the host of the Canadian literary talk show Imprint in 1993. His first print feature story was in the field of politics, when he was assigned to cover the 1995 the Quebec referendum for Harper's magazine. From there, Lawson earned additional accolades and opportunities, starting with a breakthrough stories for Harper's about small-town Canadian hockey players and life in a flophouse on the Bowery in New York City.