Eric Nisenson (February 12, 1946 – August 15, 2003) was an American author and jazz historian. The son of inventor , he was born in New York City and raised in Rye, New York. He attended New York University (NYU), where he studied English, and then moved to San Francisco where he worked on the staffs of alternative publications including The Berkeley Barb and Heliotrope. Nisenson died on August 15, 2003 of kidney failure related to his leukemia. At the time of his death he was working on a biography of pianist Dave Brubeck and a study of Brazilian music and culture.