Phyllis Rose (n. 1942) este critic literar, biografa, eseista si profesoara. Si-a luat doctoratul la Harvard si a predat pentru scurta vreme la Harvard si Yale, apoi la Wesleyan University si Berkeley University of California. Dintre principalele lucrari publicate: Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf (1978), Writing of Women: Essays in a Renaissance (1985), The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time (1997), Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters (2019).