Noon Wine is a 1937 novella written by American author Katherine Anne Porter. It was published in 1939 as part of Pale Horse, Pale Rider (ISBN 0-15-170755-3), a collection of three novellas by the author, including the title story and "Old Mortality." A dark tragedy about a farmer's act of futile murder which leads to suicide, the story takes place on a small dairy farm in Southern Texas during the 1890s. It has been filmed twice for television in 1966 and 1985.

On a hot day in Texas in the the 1890s, a stranger shows up at the small dairy farm of Royal and Ellie Thompson. He asks for work and is hired. He's a taciturn, English-speaking Swede from North Dakota; he's competent, strong, and good at farming and dairying. The years pass, the farm flourishes. Then one day a second stranger, also from North Dakota, Homer Hatch, arrives and lives are changed in ways no-one could have imagined. Written by Eileen Berdon