Edward Talmage Hinton (born July 21, 1948 in Laurel, Mississippi) is one of the most well-known and respected motor racing sportswriters in the United States and around the world.

Hinton graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1970 and began working for the Orlando Sentinel covering the NASCAR racing circuit. Hinton moved to Atlanta, Georgia and married his current wife, Snow, in 1983. In the late 1980s, Hinton joined the new sports daily newspaper, The National, which folded after only a few years. In 1988, he and his wife had their only child, Tyler.

In 1993 Hinton joined Dallas Cowboys football coach Jimmy Johnson and wrote Turning the Thing Around. Hinton was then hired as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, widely considered the greatest sports magazine in the U.S.

In 1999, Hinton and his family moved to North Carolina, and in 2000, Hinton returned to the Sentinel.