Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) was a painter and a writer. As a painter he belonged initially to the Neo-Romantic movement of the 1940s but increasingly developed his own idiosyncratic style. Concentrating on studies of male figures, his style became progressively more abstract.

Despite his undeniable stature as an artist, he is perhaps as well known today for his journals which are one of the greatest pieces of confessional writing of the twentieth-century.