Henry Behn (born September 24, 1898, McCade, near Prescott, Arizona, U.S.A.; died on a visit to Seville, Spain, September 6, 1973), American screenwriter, painter, photographer, writer, and translator of prose and poetry, especially for children. Behn is remembered principally for his collaboration with Peter Beilenson translating haiku for the fourth volume (1962) of the Peter Pauper Press vest-pocket-sized haiku collections and for two books of his own interpretations of Japanese classic haiku, Cricket Songs (1964) and More Cricket Songs (1971).