Derek Pell (b. December 9, 1947) is an American writer, satirist, visual artist, and photographer, the author of more than forty books across experimental fiction, parody, art, and nonfiction. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and began his working life as a press photographer for United Press International in 1974; his photographs and prose have since appeared in roughly 300 newspapers and magazines in the United States and Europe, among them The Times of London, Rolling Stone, Interview, Village Voice, Fiction International, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Pell also publishes under the pen name Norman Conquest; JEF keeps that pseudonymous work in the separate Norman Conquest room, because the two personae publish different kinds of book.

Under his legal name Pell built a body of deadpan parody and constraint. He wrote the Doktor Bey series (1977 to 1981), attributed to a fictional scholar, including Doktor Bey's Suicide Guide and Doktor Bey's Book of the Dead; The Marquis de Sade's Elements of Style, which runs a writing handbook through Sade; the rewritten-erotica X-Texts; and Assassination Rhapsody. He has also written straight-faced absurdist manuals, including Shoot To Thrill: A Hard-Boiled Guide to Digital Photography (Que, 2009).

JEF Books published Naked Lunch at Tiffany's (2015), a collection of satirical texts that reimagines the major works of classic and contemporary erotica, from the Kama Sutra to Fifty Shades of Grey, with an introduction by Nile Southern. It is the legal-name companion to the Norman Conquest titles JEF carries, What Is Art? and MOFA: The Museum of Fungible Art.

Start with Naked Lunch at Tiffany's for Pell's parody method aimed at a single target.