Brian Murphy (writer)
 Brian Murphy (born 1959) is the U.S. religion editor at the Associated Press and the author of a number of non-fiction books on religion including The New Men a chronicle of American seminarians in Rome and The Root of Wild Madder about the carpet trade in Iran and Afghanistan. He is a graduate of Boston College where he was an editor of The Heights.Prior to his appointment as U.S. religion editor in 2006 Murphy covered religion internationally for the AP.