Fernanda Eberstadt is an American writer.

She is the daughter of two patrons of New York City's avant-garde, Frederick Eberstadt, a photographer and psychotherapist, and Isabel Eberstadt, a writer. Her paternal grandfather was Ferdinand Eberstadt, a Wall Street financier and adviser to presidents; her maternal grandfather was the poet Ogden Nash. At age eighteen she moved to the United Kingdom where she studied at Magdalen College, Oxford.