Henri Mitterand (7 August 1928 – 8 October 2021) was a French academic, author, critic, and editor.

[3] Mitterand graduated from the École normale supérieure with a degree in literature in 1948 and became an associate professor at the school in 1951.

Mitterand devoted many of his books and articles to the works of Émile Zola, as well as other writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries.

From 1964 to 1987, he directed Les Cahiers naturalistes, devoted to the life and study of the works of Zola and the history of the Dreyfus affair.

[4] He received several prizes from the Académie Française and was a member of multiple academies and societies.