Paul Victor Ableman (13 June 1927 – 25 October 2006) was an English playwright and novelist. He was the writer of much erotic fiction and novelisations, and a freelance writer who turned his hand to non-fiction.

Ableman was born in Leeds, Yorkshire to a Jewish family. He was the son of Jack Ableman, a trouser cutter at a tailoring factory, and Gertrude (née Gould), an actress and writer. ^[1] Following his parents' divorce, he lived with his mother and stepfather, Thurston B. Macauley, a journalist (sometime London correspondent for The New York Times)^[2] in New York. After National Service in the Education Corps based in Gibraltar, he read English at King's College, London, but did not take a degree.^[3][1]

His experimental novel, I Hear Voices, was published in 1958 by the Olympia Press, and his plays include Green Julia (1966), a witty two-hander in which two young men discuss an absent mistress, and Tests (1966), which collects surreal playlets written for Peter Brook's Theatre of Cruelty.^[4]

Ableman lived in Hampstead, London in the United Kingdom. He was married twice: first to Tina Carrs-Brown in 1958- they had one son, then divorced; then to Sheila Hutton-Fox in 1978 until his death in 2006- they had one son.

Ableman was of Russian ancestry on his father's side and German on his mother's side.

• I Hear Voices (1958)
• As Near As I Can Get (1962)
• Vac (1968)
• The Twilight of the Vilp (1969)
• Bits: Some Prose Poems (1969, poems)
• The Mouth and Oral Sex (1969, psychology)
• Tornado Pratt (1978, novel)
• Porridge: The Inside Story (1979)
• A Killing on the Exchange (1979, novelization of his own miniseries teleplays)
• Shoestring (1979)
• Shoestring's Finest Hour (1980)
• County Hall (1982, novel)
• The Doomed Rebellion (1983)
• Hi De Hi: The Novel (1983)
• Straight Up: The Autobiography of Arthur Daley (1991)
• Waiting for God (1994)

• Green Julia (1966)
• Tests (playlets) (1966)
• Blue Comedy: Madly in Love, Hawk's Night (1968)