Burton Jesse Hendrick (December 8, 1870 - March 23, 1949) was an American author born in New Haven, Connecticut. Hendrick was the editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine while attending Yale University. He graduated from Yale with a BA in 1895 and a master's degree in 1897. Hendrick became the editor of the New Haven Morning News after finishing his degree. Hendrick quit newspapers in 1905, after writing for The New York Evening Post and The New York Sun, to become a "muckraker" for McClure's Magazine. In 1906, his exposé "The Story of Life-Insurance" published in McClure's. Following his tenure at McClure's, Hendrick became an associate editor at Walter Hines Page's World's Work magazine in 1913. Hendrick began writing biographies in 1919, when he ghostwrote Ambassador Morgenthau's Story for Henry Morgenthau, Sr. The Victory at Sea, which he co-authored with William Sowden Sims, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1921, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1923, and The Training of an American won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1929.