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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).

He last resided in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Many Americans came to appreciate and write haiku through reading the small books of translations of Japanese masters in the popular Peter Pauper Press series, which had been begun by Peter Beilenson in 1955.

The fourth book in this series, Haiku Harvest (1962) was completed by Harry Behn, a noted author of children’s books, and Behn went on to produce two books of his own