Pierre Michel (born 11 June 1942), is a professor of literature and a scholar specializing in the French writer Octave Mirbeau.

After defending his doctoral dissertation on the works of Octave Mirbeau at the University of Angers in 1992, Michel founded a year later, the "Société Octave Mirbeau", a literary society he is currently presiding.

He is also the founder and editor in chief of Cahiers Octave Mirbeau (1993).

A biographer and indefatigable authority of Mirbeau's work, Michel has published critical editions of all his work: novels, plays, articles and correspondence.

Pierre Michel was awarded the Sévigné prize[1] in October 2003 for his edition of the first volume of Mirbeau's Correspondance générale.