diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index f8df681d..a4e468c0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+v3.7.0
+======
+
+* #131: Added ``packages_distributions`` to conveniently
+  resolve a top-level package or module to its distribution(s).
+
 v3.6.0
 ======
 
diff --git a/docs/using.rst b/docs/using.rst
index 97941452..18aa2fda 100644
--- a/docs/using.rst
+++ b/docs/using.rst
@@ -182,6 +182,17 @@ function::
     ["pytest (>=3.0.0) ; extra == 'test'", "pytest-cov ; extra == 'test'"]
 
 
+Package distributions
+---------------------
+
+A convience method to resolve the distribution or
+distributions (in the case of a namespace package) for top-level
+Python packages or modules::
+
+    >>> packages_distributions()
+    {'importlib_metadata': ['importlib-metadata'], 'yaml': ['PyYAML'], 'jaraco': ['jaraco.classes', 'jaraco.functools'], ...}
+
+
 Distributions
 =============
 
diff --git a/importlib_metadata/__init__.py b/importlib_metadata/__init__.py
index b0b1ae0e..5c19c237 100644
--- a/importlib_metadata/__init__.py
+++ b/importlib_metadata/__init__.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 import functools
 import itertools
 import posixpath
-import collections
+import collections.abc
 
 from ._compat import (
     NullFinder,
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 from importlib import import_module
 from importlib.abc import MetaPathFinder
 from itertools import starmap
-from typing import Any, List, Optional, TypeVar, Union
+from typing import Any, List, Mapping, Optional, TypeVar, Union
 
 
 __all__ = [
@@ -796,3 +796,19 @@ def requires(distribution_name):
     packaging.requirement.Requirement.
     """
     return distribution(distribution_name).requires
+
+
+def packages_distributions() -> Mapping[str, List[str]]:
+    """
+    Return a mapping of top-level packages to their
+    distributions.
+
+    >>> pkgs = packages_distributions()
+    >>> all(isinstance(dist, collections.abc.Sequence) for dist in pkgs.values())
+    True
+    """
+    pkg_to_dist = collections.defaultdict(list)
+    for dist in distributions():
+        for pkg in (dist.read_text('top_level.txt') or '').split():
+            pkg_to_dist[pkg].append(dist.metadata['Name'])
+    return dict(pkg_to_dist)