Marcus Aurelius Goodrich was an American screenwriter and novelist. He was the first husband of actress Olivia de Havilland. Their only son Benjamin was born on 1 December 1949. Before he was married to Elizabeth Norton, Henriette Alice McCrea-Metcalf, Caroline Sleeth, Renee Oakman.
He associated with the Ernest Hemingway group in Paris and was a protégé of Philip Wylie. He is best known for his 1941 novel Delilah.