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Amos Tutuola (June 20, 1920 - June 8, 1997) was a Nigerian writer famous for his books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.

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Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920, where his parents Charles and Esther were Yoruba Christian cocoa farmers. His brief education was limited to six years (from 1934 to 1939). When about 7 years old, he became a servant for F.O. Monu, an Ibo man, who sent Tutuola to the Salvation Army primary school in lieue of payment. At age 12 he attended the Anglican Central School in Abeokuta. When his father died in 1939, Tutuola left school to train as a blacksmith, which trade he practised from 1942 to 1945 for the Royal Air Force in Nigeria. He subsequently tried a number of other vocations, including selling bread and acting as messenger for the Nigerian Department of Labor. In 1946, Tutuola completed his first full-length book, , within a few days. He married Victoria Alake in 1947, with whom he had four sons and four daughters.

After he had written his first three books and become internationally famous, he joined the Nigerian Broadcasting Company in 1956 as a storekeeper in Ibadan, Western Nigeria. Tutuola became also one of the founders of Mbari Club, the writers' and publishers' organization. In 1979, he held a visiting research fellowship at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) at Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and in 1983 he was an associate of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In retirement he divided his time between residences at Ibadan and Ago-Odo. Tutuola died at age 77 on June 8, 1997 from hypertension and diabetes.

Despite his short formal education, Tutuola wrote his novels in English. His most famous novel, , was written in 1946, published in 1952 in London by Faber and Faber, and translated and published in Paris as by Raymond Queneau in 1953. The noted poet Dylan Thomas brought it to wide attention, calling it "brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching". Although the book was praised in England and the United States, it faced severe criticism in Tutuola's native Nigeria. Part of this criticism was due to his use of "broken English" and primitive in 1954 and then several other books in which Tutuola continued to explore Yoruba traditions and folklore. However, none of the subsequent works managed to match the success of s have been collected at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.