DeWitt Henry is an American author and editor. Born in 1941 in

Wayne, Pennsylvania Wayne is an unincorporated community centered in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on the Main Line, a series of highly affluent Philadelphia suburbs located along the railroad tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad and one of the wealthiest areas ...

, Henry earned his A.B. from Amherst College in 1963 and his MA and PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. He is a founding editor of ''

Ploughshares ''Ploughshares'' is an American literary journal established 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 Bos ...

'', a literary journal, and served as its editor and director from its inception in 1971 to 1995. Henry taught at Emerson College from 1983 until his retirement in 2014.

Bibliography

Works authored

*''Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays'', Plume Editions/

MadHat Press ''MadHat Press'' is an American and international book-publishing company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. History MadHat was founded in 2010 by poets Carol Novack and Marc Vincenz as a platform for new American and international writing. At ...

, 2018 *''Visions of a Wayne Childhood'', Create Space, 2012 *''Sweet Dreams: A Family History'', Hidden River Press, 2011 *''Safe Suicide: Essays, Narratives, and Mediations'', Red Hen Press, 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 Press, 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 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 ...

, 1984, NAL, 1985 (winner of the Third Annual Editors Book Award)

References

External links

dewitthenry.com

''Ploughshares''

Interview with the author
at Pif Magazine. {{DEFAULTSORT:Henry, Dewitt Living people American male writers American editors Emerson College faculty Amherst College alumni Harvard University alumni 1941 births