DeWitt Henry

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.

Bibliography

Works authored

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

External links

• dewitthenry.com
• Ploughshares
• Interview with the author at Pif Magazine.