Harriet Huntington Doerr (April 8, 1910 – November 24, 2002) was an American author whose debut novel was published at the age of 74.

She then enrolled in Smith College in 1927, but transferred to Stanford University the following year where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.

Albert Doerr's family owned the copper mine of El Orito in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes, in the city of Real de Asientos.

The time she spent in this small Mexican mining town would later provide Harriet with both the subject matter and the setting for much of her writing.

At the suggestion of her son Michael, a 1953 Stanford graduate, she decided to finish the education which had been interrupted so long before by her marriage.