John Henry Reese (18 December 1910 – 15 August 1981) was an American author, mainly of Western and Crime Fiction. He won the prestigious 1952 New York Herald Tribune award for his first children's book, Big Mutt. He produced more than 40 Western novels and more than three hundred short stories. His first novel Sheehan's Mill, not pf the Western genre, was published by Doubleday in 1943, during wartime publishing restrictions.