Archibald Henderson (professor)

Archibald Henderson (July 17, 1877 – December 6, 1963) was an American professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history.

He was born at Salisbury, North Carolina, was educated at the University of North Carolina (A.B., 1898; Ph.D., 1902), where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, and studied more at Chicago, Cambridge, and Berlin universities, and at the Sorbonne (Paris).

In 1903 in Chicago Henderson saw the first performance in the United States of Bernard Shaw's play You Never Can Tell.

Henderson became so enthusiastic about the playwright and his personality that he determined to write Shaw's biography.

The Libraries at the University of North Carolina hold about 380 of Henderson's own writings on various topics, including an invaluable collection of 75 scrap books devoted to articles about Shaw.