The Hoosier Schoolmaster (novel)
 The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana is an 1871 novel by the American author Edward Eggleston. The novel originated from a series of stories written for Hearth and Home a periodical edited by Eggleston and was based on the experiences of his brother George Cary Eggleston who had been a schoolteacher in Indiana. The novel is noted for its realistic depictions of 19th-century American rural life and for its use of local dialect.