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

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

, Henry earned his A.B. from

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zepha ...

in 1963 and his MA and PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. 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 Bost ...

'', a literary journal, and served as its editor and director from its inception in 1971 to 1995. Henry taught at

Emerson College Emerson College is a private college in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It also maintains campuses in Los Angeles and Well, Limburg, Netherlands (Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of Public Speaking, o ...

from 1983 until his retirement in 2014.

Bibliography

Works authored

*''Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays'', Plume Editions/ MadHat Press, 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 Red Hen Press is an American non-profit press located in Pasadena, California, and specializing in the publication of poetry, literary fiction, and nonfiction. The press is a member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, and was a fin ...

, 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 Beacon Press is an American left-wing non-profit book publisher. Founded in 1854 by the American Unitarian Association, it is currently a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association. It is known for publishing authors such as Jame ...

, 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. History B ...

, 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