Daniel Aaron (August 4, 1912 – April 30, 2016) was an American writer and academic who helped found the Library of America.

[5] He edited the diaries of American poet Arthur Crew Inman (1895–1963): some 17 million words from 1919 to 1963.

He was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus at Harvard.

[5] His son, Jonathan Aaron, is an accomplished poet who holds a doctorate from Yale University and teaches writing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

[13] In 2010, he was a National Humanities Medalist,[10][14][15] whose citation reads: Daniel Aaron: Literary scholar for his contributions to American literature and culture.