Brian Earnshaw (26 December 1929 – 15 February 2014) was a British author, known for his Dragonfall 5 series, illustrated by Simon Stern.

Brian Earnshaw was born in Wrexham, Wales on 26 December 1929. He attended Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read English. He then spent a number of years as a secondary school teacher in different locations in the UK. From 1964 until his retirement we was a lecturer in English Literature at St Paul's College, Cheltenham (a teacher training college with Bristol University qualifications). In 1982 he completed a doctorate at Warwick University with a thesis entitled 'Translations from German and their Reception in Britain 1760-1800'. After retiring, he moved to Bristol, and worked with Timothy Mowl on a range of books on British architectural and garden history. These sometimes appear with Earnshaw as Mowl's co-author, and sometimes with him in Mowl's acknowledgement as a researcher. He had a great love of botany and travel, and made extensive trips around Europe and elsewhere studying flowers, architecture, gardens and history. Earnshaw died on 15 February 2014, at the age of 84.^[1]

• At St. David's A Year, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968 ISBN 0-340-02503-4
• Cavafy Gone Gothic, Bristol: Redcliffe Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1-906593-06-3