Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English naturalist, farmer and prolific author known for his natural and social history novels. Williamson wrote, ,a celebrated roman clef of the thirties, about a war poet with the added frisson of anonymity.

"The gold falcon, or, The haggard of love : being the adventures of Manfred, airman and poet of the World War, and later husband and father, in search of freedom and personal sunrise in the city of New York and of the consummation of his life....."
. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter.