William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (December 6, 1878 – June 8, 1962) was an African-American writer, poet, literary critic, anthologist, and publisher in the United States.

His work as a critic and anthologist was widely praised and important in the development of East Coast poetry styles in the early 20th century.

When he was aged 15 he was apprenticed to a typesetter for the Boston publisher, Ginn & Co.,[4] where he discovered an affinity for lyric poetry and began to write his own poems.

He also wrote articles, reviews and poetry for many other periodicals and journals, including the Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Crisis, Opportunity, and The Colored American Magazine.

[5] These anthologies covered a wide range of poets, from the conservative to the avant-garde, the established to the new, as well as an introduction in which Braithwaite discussed his perspective on the current state of poetry.

In 1946, he and his family moved to Sugar Hill in Harlem, New York where Braithwaite continued to write and publish poetry, essays and anthologies.

[9] Braithwaite is recognized as having a significant role in publishing Harlem Renaissance poets for a wide audience through his anthologies, despite his own conservatism in discussing race in his own work.

8266, Penitentiary, A Tale of a Walled Town: and Other Verses (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1921) Introduction to Brookes More, The Beggar's Vision (Boston: Cornhill, 1921) Introduction to J. Corson Miller, Veils of Samite (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1921) Forward to Maud Cuney-Hare, The Message of the Trees (Boston: Cornhill, 1921) John Myers O'Hara and the Grecian Influence (Portland, ME: Smith and Sale, 1926) Introduction to Rosa Zagnioni Marinoni and Mary Carolyn Davies, Red Kites and Wooden Crosses (Chicago: Packard, 1929) Introduction to Mae Cowdery, WE Lift Our Voices and Other poems (Philadelphia: Alpress, 1936) Biographical essay in S. S. Van Dine, Philo Vance Murder Cases (New York, London: Scribner's, 1936) The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the Brontës, Coward-McCann, 1950.

The William Stanley Braithwaite Reader, edited by Philip Butcher (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972) The House Under Artcthurus.