Eleazar Lipsky (September 6, 1911 – February 14, 1993) was a prosecutor, lawyer, novelist and playwright born in the Bronx, New York, United States. He wrote the novels that formed the basis of two very successful films, Kiss of Death and The People Against O'Hara. A very scarce copy of Lipsky’s first book and one of the last books published in the original Penguin Books series before it was purchased by Ian Ballantine. A classic of American Crime fiction and the basis of the acclaimed 1947 film of the same name.