Helen Lawrenson (born Helen Strough Brown, October 1, 1907 – April 5, 1982), was an American editor, writer and socialite who gained fame in the 1930s with her blunt descriptions of New York society. She made friends with great ease, many among the rich and famous, notably author Clare Boothe Luce and statesman Bernard Baruch. At the height of the Great Depression, in the 1930s, she was an editor of Vanity Fair. She later became notorious for an article called "Latins Are Lousy Lovers", published in Esquire in 1936. She supported herself by writing articles for the rest of her life.