DeWitt Henry
Encyclopedia
DeWitt Henry is an American
author and editor.
Born in 1941 in Wayne, Pennsylvania
, Henry earned his A.B. from Amherst College
in 1963. He is a founding editor of Ploughshares
, a literary journal, and served as its editor and director from its inception in 1971 to 1995. He currently teaches at Emerson College
.
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author and editor.
Born in 1941 in Wayne, Pennsylvania
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Wayne is an unincorporated community located on the Main Line, centered in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. While the center of Wayne is in Radnor Township, Wayne extends into both Tredyffrin Township in Chester County and Upper Merion Township in Montgomery County...
, Henry earned his A.B. from Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
in 1963. He is a founding editor of Ploughshares
Ploughshares
Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston...
, a literary journal, and served as its editor and director from its inception in 1971 to 1995. He currently teaches at Emerson College
Emerson College
Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts...
.
Works authored
- Safe Suicide: Essays, Narratives, and Mediations, Red Hen PressRed Hen PressRed Hen Press is an American non-profit press specializing in the publication of literary fiction and poetry located in Pasadena, California. Founded by Kate Gale, the mission of Red Hen Press is to discover, publish, and promote works of literary excellence that have been overlooked by mainstream...
, 2008 - The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, University of Tennessee Press, 2001 (winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel)
Works edited
- Sorrow's Company: Writers on Loss and Grief, Beacon PressBeacon PressBeacon Press is an American non-profit book publisher. Founded in 1854 by the American Unitarian Association, it is currently a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association.Beacon Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses....
, 2001 - Breaking Into Print: Early Stories and Insights Into Getting Published, Beacon Press, 2000
- Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men (with James Alan McPherson), Beacon Press 1998, pb. 1999
- Other Sides of Silence: New Fiction from Ploughshares, Faber and Faber, 1993, o.p.
- The Ploughshares Reader: New Fiction for the 80s, Pushcart PressPushcart PressPushcart Press is a publishing house established in 1972 by Bill Henderson and is perhaps most famous for its Pushcart Prize and for the anthology of prize winners it publishes annually. The press has been honored by Publishers Weekly as one of the USA's "most influential publishers" with the 1979...
, 1984, NAL, 1985 (winner of the Third Annual Editors Book Award)