Émile Henriot (French: [emil ɑ̃ʁjo]; 3 March 1889 – 14 April 1961) was a French poet, novelist, essayist and literary critic.
A son of the caricaturist Henri Maigrot, known under the pen name Henriot, he fought in the First World War.
He first wrote as a journalist for Temps in the inter-war period.
He became literary critic for Monde, the heir of Temps on the Liberation of France, and for them coined the term 'nouveau roman' in 1957.
He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1946 at the same time as Édouard Le Roy.