# DeWitt Henry

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**DeWitt Henry** is an American author and editor.

Born in 1941 in [Wayne, Pennsylvania](/source/Wayne,_Pennsylvania), Henry earned his A.B. from [Amherst College](/source/Amherst_College) in 1963 and his MA and PhD from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University). He is a founding editor of *[Ploughshares](/source/Ploughshares)*, a literary journal, and served as its editor and director from its inception in 1971 to 1995.[1] Henry taught at [Emerson College](/source/Emerson_College) from 1983 until his retirement in 2014.[2]

## Bibliography

### Works authored

- ***Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays**,* Plume Editions/[MadHat Press](/source/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](/source/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 | ISBN 978-1953136572 | [Pierian Springs Press](/source/Pierian_Springs_Press), 2023
- ***Trim Reckonings**,* Poems | ISBN 978-1953136411 | [Pierian Springs Press](/source/Pierian_Springs_Press), 2023
- ***The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts**,'’* 2nd Ed | ISBN 978-1953136657 | [Pierian Springs Press](/source/Pierian_Springs_Press), 2024
- ***Do I Dream Or Wake?**,* Poems | ISBN 978-1965784075 | [Pierian Springs Press](/source/Pierian_Springs_Press), 2025
- ***Top Cop Kills**,* A Novel | ISBN 978-1953136992 | [Pierian Springs Press](/source/Pierian_Springs_Press), 2025

### Works edited

- ***Sorrow's Company: Writers on Loss and Grief***, [Beacon Press](/source/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](/source/Pushcart_Press), 1984, NAL, 1985 (winner of the Third Annual Editors Book Award)

## References

1. ["DeWitt Henry"](https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/dewitt_henry). 28 May 1981.

1. [https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/dewitt_henry](https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/dewitt_henry), [https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/69287](https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/69287)

## External links

- [dewitthenry.com](http://www.dewitthenry.com)
- [*Ploughshares*](http://www.pshares.org)
- [Interview with the author](http://www.pifmagazine.com/2011/03/11091/) at Pif Magazine.

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