Robin Swicord (born 1952 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American screenwriter
and film director. She wrote the screenplay for the film Memoirs of a Geisha, based on
the novel of the same name by Arthur Golden. Her other screenplay credits include
Little Women, Practical Magic, Matilda, The Perez Family, and Shag.

Her directorial debut was with the 1993 short film The Red Coat, for which she also wrote
the screenplay. Swicord wrote the screenplay for Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 novel The Jane
Austen Book Club and directed the film, which was released in the United States on
September 21, 2007. She also collaborated with Eric Roth on the screen adaptation of
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the short story of the same name by
F. Scott Fitzgerald.

She is married to screenwriter Nicholas Kazan, son of director Elia Kazan.