Helen E. Bevington (; 1906 – March 16, 2001) was an American poet, prose writer, and educator. Her most noted book, Charley Smith's Girl (1965), was "banned by the library in the small town of Worcester, N.Y., where she grew up, because the book tells of her minister father's having been divorced by her mother for affairs that he was carrying on with younger female parishioners." in Afton, New York, Bevington was reared in Worcester, New York, where her father was a Methodist minister. She attended the University of Chicago and earned a degree in philosophy. Charley Smith's Girl (1965) was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize.