Dewitt Henry - A Narrative Account of His Career

The Knoxville Writers' Guild and the University of Tennessee is pleased to announce the winner of
the 1st annual

Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel - 2000
DeWitt Henry

DeWitt Henry

Though The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts will be DeWitt Henry's first published novel, he is not new to publishing. Mr. Henry is known for his association with Ploughshares literary magazine, which he co-founded in 1971 and co-edited over a period of 24 years. Mr. Henry built Ploughshares into one of America's premier literary publications, and in the process aided the careers of some of our finest writers. In 1985 he was awarded the Editor's Book Award from Pushcart Press for his anthology The Ploughshare's Reader: New Fiction for the Eighties,and he followed this with two other acclaimed anthologies of Ploughsharesfiction, Other Sides of Silence (Faber, 1993) and Breaking Into Print: Early Stories and Insights into Getting Published: A Ploughshares Anthology (Beacon Press, 2000).

In addition, Mr. Henry is co-editor, with James Alan McPherson, of an anthology of new writing called Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men (Beacon Press, 1999). His latest book, Sorrow's Company: Writers on Loss and Grief, will be published by Beacon Press in February of 2001.

DeWitt Henry's own fiction and personal essays have been published in a host of journals and reviews, including The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, The Colorado Review, Boulevard, Cottonwood Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, and the Nebraska Review. His work has been cited in Best American Essays on at least five occasions, and he is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for Fiction, the Boulevard Fiction Award, a PEN New England Friend to Writers Award, and a Pushcart Prize.