Frederick James Whishaw (14 March 1854 – 8 July 1934) was a Russian-born British novelist, historian, poet and musician. A popular author of children's fiction at the turn of the 20th century, he published over forty volumes of his work between 1884 and 1914. Whishaw was also one of the first translators of Fyodor Dostoevsky. He had several of the Russian author's novels published between 1886 and 1888.