Harold Heslop (1 October 1898 – 10 November 1983) was an English author, left-wing political activist, and coalminer, from near Bishop Auckland, County Durham. Heslop's first novel "Goaf" was published in 1926, but it was in a Russian translation as "Pod vlastu uglya" and did not appear in England until 1934. In 1929, he also published his first novel in England, "The Gate of a Strange Field", about the 1926 United Kingdom general strike. His last novel, "The Earth Beneath," was published in 1946.