Betty Harper Fussell (born July 28, 1927, Riverside, California) is an American food writer. She authored The Story of Corn, an in-depth study of the plant as a crop, religion, and culture. Other books include Crazy for Corn,Food in Good Season,I Hear America Cooking.
She also authored Mabel, a biography of Mabel Normand.
She is the former wife of Paul Fussell, a literary critic and military historian. She described their decades-long marriage and its breakdown in highly disobliging terms in My Kitchen Wars.