Jean Christopher Herold was a Czech American university press editor and author from the 1940s to 1960s. While editing at Columbia University Press and Stanford University Press, Herold primarily wrote French history books on Napoleon Bonaparte while also covering Joan of Arc and Madame de Staël. Herold won the 1959 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his book, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960.