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Anatole Broyard ( July 16, 1920- October 11, 1990) was an African-American literary critic for the New York Times, noted after his death for having started his career by severing his ties to his relatives and "passing for white".

The fact of the recent African origin of all, or nearly all, of his genes was not obvious in his physical appearance; he avoided informing his associates of his African-American connection, to the extent of removing from his own copy of one of his early works, published around 1950, a "contributor's note" that described him as "know[ing] at first hand" the situation of black Americans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discussed him in his Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man , with the essay "The Passing of Anatole Broyard".

In addition to his reviews and columns, he published several books during his lifetime, and his most autobiographical works, Intoxicated by My Illness and Kafka Was the Rage , A Greenwich Village Memoir were published after his death.

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