William Harmon (born 1938) is James Gordon Hanes Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of five books of poetry and editor of A Handbook to Literature.
William Harmon was born in Concord, North Carolina, a small cotton-mill town northeast of Charlotte.
As an adviser to the South Vietnamese Navy, he wrote its Standard Ship's Organization Manual.
His dissertation on Ezra Pound was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977.
Harmon has been donating an extensive set of correspondences (over 10,000 items, deemed the William Harmon Papers) to the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library (located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina).