Ellis Edward Amburn (born August 2, 1933 in Jack County, Texas) is an American book editor and biographer.A 1954 graduate of Texas Christian University, Ellis Amburn worked as a reporter for Newsweek before going into the book publishing industry where he rose to the position of editor, working for such well-known publishers as Delacorte Press, Coward-McCann, William Morrow. During his career, Amburn was an editor for authors such John le Carré, Belva Plain, Muriel Spark, Joshua Logan and for Jack Kerouac who would be the subject of Amburn's 1998 book on which Leonardo DiCaprio has optioned film rights.