Walter Ellis (born September 7, 1948) is a Northern Ireland-born, United States-based writer. He spends his summers in France. Ellis is the author of The Beginning of the End: The Crippling Disadvantage of a Happy Irish Childhood, the story of his early life in Belfast, Durham, Cork, and Brussels, and his uneasy relationship with his cousin, Ronnie Bunting, a leading member of the Irish National Liberation Army, shot dead in 1980. He also wrote The Oxbridge Conspiracy: How the Ancient Universities Have Kept Their Stranglehold on the Establishment (ISBN 0718137485/ISBN 9780718137489), a study of elitism in higher education in England.