John Rolfe Gardiner (born 1936) is an American author of several novels and short stories.
He is best known for his novel Somewhere in France (1999), aside from which he has written four other novels and two short-story collections. Sixteen of his stories were published in The New Yorker; others were published in The American Scholar and in other publications. His short story "The Voyage Out" was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories_. His work was awarded the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award and the O. Henry Award.
Gardiner's stories often take place in his native Virginia, but also in various places in Europe, most prominently in France.
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