Henry Mills Alden

Henry Mills Alden (November 11, 1836 – October 7, 1919) was an American author and editor of Harper's Magazine from 1869 until 1919.

Alden enrolled at Williams College at the age of sixteen. At Williams, he chose to study psychology and classics over advanced mathematics, which deprived him of academic honors. He graduated with the class of 1857 and entered Andover Theological Seminary, which he chose for its large library of Greek literature. While studying at Andover, Alden became an acquaintance and frequent guest of the abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe read some of his earliest published work and forwarded two of his essays on the Eleusinian Mysteries in Greek theology, entitled "The Eleusinia" and "The Saviors of Greece," to James Russell Lowell, who published them in The Atlantic Monthly in 1859 and 1860.

Works His personal publications include: The Ancient "Lady of Sorrow", a poem (1871) God in His World: an Interpretation (1890), a book published anonymously