Philip Prichard Henderson (17 February 1906 – 13 September 1977) was a British novelist and literature critic.
After attending Bradfield College he worked as assistant editor of Everyman's Library from 1929 to 1932.
During World War II he was employed as a fireman by the National Fire Service from 1939 to 1943, while at the same time writing books and articles as a free-lance author and editor.
Apart from composing complete editions of the poems of John Skelton and Emily Brontë, Henderson wrote several books on literary criticism, such as Literature and a Changing Civilisation (1935), The Novel Today (1936), and The Poet and Society (1939).
Henderson also wrote several biographies of literary men, such as And Morning in His Eyes: A Book About Christopher Marlowe (1937), William Morris: His Life, Work, and Friends (1952), Samuel Butler: The Incarnate Bachelor (1953), The Life of Laurence Oliphant, Traveler, Diplomat, and Mystic (1956), Swinburne: Portrait of a Poet (1974) and Tennyson: Poet and Prophet (1978), as well as a biography of Richard I of England titled Richard Coeur de Lion: A Biography (1958).