James Henry Stark (6 July 1847 – 30 August 1919) was a British-American printer, publisher, and non-fiction writer, known for his six guidebooks to the British West Indies and Bermuda, and for a controversial account of the Loyalists of Massachusetts during the American Revolution.

In 1856 his father travelled from his home in the United States and brought James to Boston where he was educated in public schools.

[3] Stark entered the printing trade in 1864 to learn stereotyping and electrotyping and in 1870 started his own business which was destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

In 1877 with William H. Mumler, he established the Photo-Electrotype Company in Boston of which he was president until his retirement in 1900 when he moved into real estate.

[3] The William and Mary Quarterly took a more moderate tone, welcoming the book's fact-based narrative as an antidote to the partisan hero-worship of the leaders of the American Revolution that it felt had damaged American historical scholarship but feeling that perhaps Stark went too far in the other direction in his attempt to redress the balance.