Stuart Pratt Sherman (October 1, 1881–August 21, 1926) was an American literary critic, educator and journalist known for his philosophical "feud" with H. L. Mencken.

In April 1924, Sherman became editor of “Books,” the literary supplement to the New York Herald Tribune, which under his editorship became the leading American critical journal.

[3] With the entry of the United States into World War I, Sherman expressed what some deemed a chauvinistic patriotism in an address before the National Council of Teachers of English on December 1, 1917, denouncing both the philosophy of Nietzsche and his American apologist, Henry Louis Mencken.

argue that Sherman moved perceptibly to the left, eventually embracing modernism and confessing that he had erred in trying to make men good instead of happy.

Sherman also changed his mind about the merits of Dreiser's work, and praised An American Tragedy for what he regarded as its "masterly exhaustiveness" of character development.