Bill Henderson (born April 5, 1941) is an American author, editor and publisher best known for his memoirs and the Pushcart Prize series.

Publisher

Bill Henderson is founder and editor of

Pushcart Press Pushcart Press is a publishing house established in 1972 by Bill Henderson (a one-time associate editor at Doubleday) and is perhaps most famous for its Pushcart Prize and for the anthology of prize winners it publishes annually. The press has ...

, publisher of the annual '' Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses''. His anthology, featuring fiction, poetry and essays, has earned national recognition and is celebrating its 40th Anniversary.

was awarded the 1979 Carey Thomas Prize for Publisher of the Year by ''

Publishers Weekly ''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of ...

''. He has also edited and published many other books, including ''The Publish-It-Yourself Handbook'' (1973), ''The Art of Literary Publishing'' (1980), and ''Rotten Reviews'' (1986) a look at negative reviews of now-classic literature, and ''Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club'' (1995)

Awards

Henderson received the 2005 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle and the 2006 Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble's "Writers for Writers." He was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2020 citation for Distinguished Service to the Arts.

Author

Henderson is the author of the novel ''The Kid That Could'' (1970); and the memoirs ''His Son'' (1980); ''Her Father'' (1995); ''Tower'' (2000); ''Simple Gifts'' (2006); and ''All My Dogs: A Life'' (2011). His most recent memoir, ''Cathedral: An Illness and a Healing'' was published in 2014. Two

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

articles detail ''Tower'' and ''Cathedral''.

Personal life

Henderson lives on the East End of Long Island and in Maine with his wife, Genie Chipps Henderson. His daughter, Lily Frances Henderson, is a filmmaker and director based in Brooklyn, New York. He owns and runs "The World's Smallest Bookstore", located in Sedgwick, Maine.

References

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