Arthur Henry Mee (21 July 1875 – 27 May 1943) was an English writer, journalist and educator.

He was born on 21 July 1875 at Stapleford near Nottingham, England, the second of the ten children of Henry Mee (b.

As a boy he earned money from reading the reports of Parliament to a local blind man.

The Children's Encyclopædia was translated into Chinese and sold well in the United States under the title The Book of Knowledge.

Mee exhibited a number of prejudices in his writing, notably anti-Catholic and anti-intellectual (which may best be illustrated by his treatment of Alexander of Hales in the Gloucestershire volume of the 'King's England').