Jeremy Mercer (born 1971 in Ottawa, Canada) is an author and journalist whose books include Time Was Soft There (St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005) and When the Guillotine Fell (St. Martin's Press, New York, 2008). He has also translated Robert Badinter's Abolition into English for University Press of New England. He is a founding member of the Paris arts collective Kilometer Zero. He is also the author of Money for Nothing (October 1999) and The Champagne Gang: High Times and Sweet Crimes (January 1998).