Arthur Burton Rascoe (October 22, 1892 – March 19, 1957), was an American journalist, editor and literary critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

Feeling ready and recognizing his more open-minded views he left school before graduation and moved to Chicago.

The writing and editorial staff he assembled included writers who became well-respected: Isabel Paterson and Will Cuppy.

[3] Rascoe continued to hold high-profile editorial jobs in the field of literary criticism and to write books of his own about literature and authors.

Other works include Theodore Dreiser(1925), A Bookman's Daybook (1929), The Smart Set Anthology, edited together with Groff Conklin (1934), The Joys of Reading: Life's Greatest Pleasure (1937) and Belle Starr, The Bandit Queen (1941).

[4] In 1946, he resigned as dramatic critic for the New York World Telegram after the paper refused to publish his harshly negative review of the Old Vic Company's production of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I and Rascoe, in turn, refused to review any more Old Vic productions.