Herbert Mitgang (January 20, 1920 – November 21, 2013) was an American author, editor, journalist, playwright, and producer of television news documentaries.
During a 47-year career at the newspaper, he served as supervising editor of the drama section of the Sunday edition, was a member of the editorial board for twelve years, was the first deputy editor of the OP Ed page that he helped create, and was the paper's publishing correspondent and a daily book critic until his retirement in 1995.
He also instructed evening classes in English at City College of New York in 1948–1949 and was a visiting professor at Yale University in 1975–1976.
Mitgang contributed freelance articles to magazines, wrote several novels and biographies and edited several books.
Mitgang was married to Shirley (b. Kravchick), with whom he had a son, Lee, and two daughters: Esther who died in 2007, and, Laura.