Joan Schenkar was an American playwright and writer. She is known for her biographies of writer Patricia Highsmith, and Dorothy Wilde, as well as for the production of several of her plays in New York in the 1980s, including Signs of Life, Cabin Fever, and The Last of Hitler.

The Glass Cell
1964
ISBN 9780349004969
The New Fuck You
1995
ISBN 9781570270574
Patricia Highsmith
2010
ISBN 9788477652816