John Dickenson (c. 1570–1636)[1] was an English author, known as a romance-writer.
He was a follower in the school of John Lyly and Robert Greene.
He worked for a time in the Low Countries, and Germany.
Employed by George Gilpin and Ralph Winwood, he may have been a spy, and certainly was an agent of the government on the ground at the time of the War of the Jülich succession of 1610.
[1] He was the author of: According to recent scholarship, Dickenson translated from French Louis Leroy's edition of Aristotle's Politics in 1598, as Aristotles Politiques.