DeWitt Henry is an American author and editor.
Born in 1941 in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Henry earned his A.B. from Amherst College in 1963 and his MA and PhD from Harvard University. He is a founding editor of Ploughshares, 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.https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/dewitt_henry, https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/69287
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, 2008 The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, University of Tennessee Press, 2001 (winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel) Foundlings, Poems, Artwork: Ruth Henry | | Pierian Springs Press, 2023 Trim Reckonings, Poems | | Pierian Springs Press, 2023 The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts,'’ 2nd Ed | | Pierian Springs Press, 2024 Do I Dream Or Wake?, Poems | | Pierian Springs Press, 2025 Top Cop Kills, A Novel | | Pierian Springs Press, 2025
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, 2000Fathering 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)
References
External links dewitthenry.com Ploughshares Interview with the author at Pif Magazine.