Eileen Whitfield

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Eileen Whitfield (born 1951) is a journalist and playwright in Toronto, Ontario.

Whitfield's acclaimed biography Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood took ten years to complete. It was published in 1997 by Macfarlane Walter & Ross in Canada and by the University Press of Kentucky in the United States. The book tells the story of Canadian-born actress Mary Pickford. Of it, Library Journal said: "there have been other biographies of Pickford, this will stand as the definitive one. Highly recommended."

The book won the UBC President's Medal in Biography.

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