Edith Maud Hull (16 August 1880 – 11 February 1947) was a British writer of romance novels, typically credited as E. M.

The Sheik is credited with beginning a revival of the "desert romance" genre of romantic fiction.

Born Edith Maud Henderson on 16 August 1880 in the Borough of Hampstead, London, England, she was the daughter of James Henderson, a Liverpool shipowner originally from New York City, and Katie Thorne, of New Brunswick, Canada.

During her later life, Hull expressed regret that she had sold the film rights for her novels for too little money.

[4] During the 1940s, Canadian science fiction writer Edna Mayne Hull initially published her work as "E.M.