"Life itself is our glory and ordeal, our measure of heart, and of passion. We do our best. There is no finish line." --from "On Aging"
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BiographyBorn 6/30/41 in Wayne, PA. Radnor High School, 1959; A.B. Amherst College, 1963; M.A. in English, Harvard Univ., 1965; Ph.D. English, Harvard Univ., 1971; completed requirements for M.F.A. University of Iowa, 1968 (did not take the degree). Married Constance Sherbill 1973; two children Ruth Kathryn Henry born 1977; David Jung Min Henry born 1985. Grand daughter Eva Luz Henry born 2003. Sister Judy Friedericy; brothers Charles (deceased 1999) and John T. Henry (deceased 2004). Founding editor of Ploughshares literary magazine, and active editor and director 1971-1995. Interim Director of Ploughshares 6/2007-10/2008. Professor, Writing, Literature, and Publishing, Emerson College, 2006 to present; Associate Professor 1989 to 2006: hired as Assistant Professor 1983; Acting Chairperson 1987-8; Chairperson 1989-93.
My Writing, Editing and Publishing LifeSAFE SUICIDE: ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, AND MEDITATIONS, Red Hen Press, 2008
Novel:THE MARRIAGE OF ANNA MAYE POTTS, University of Tennesee Press, 2001 (winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel) Anthologies Edited: SORROW'S COMPANY: WRITERS ON LOSS AND GRIEF, Beacon Press, 2001 BREAKING INTO PRINT: EARLY STORIES AND INSIGHTS INTO GETTING PUBLISHED; A PLOUGHSHARES ANTHOLOGY, 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 Third Annual Editors Book Award Issues of PLOUGHSHARES: Vol. 17, Nos 2&3, Twentieth Anniversary Issue (with Joyce Peseroff), 1991 Vol. 16, Nos 2&3, Confronting Racial Difference (with James Alan McPherson), 1990 Vol. 13, Nos 2&3, Fiction Issue, 1987 Vol. 11, Nos 2&3, Fiction Issue (with James Alan McPherson), 1985 Vol. 8, No 4, Fiction Issue, 1982 Vol. 5, No4, Fiction Issue, 1979 Vol. 4, No. 4 Fiction Issue (with Tim O'Brien), 1978 Vol. 4, No 2 Women Imagine Men/Men Imagine Women (with Rosellen Brown and Andre Dubus), 1978 Vol. 4, No 3, Criticism Issue (with Linda Bamber), 1978 Vol. 3, No 1, Fiction Issue (with Tim O'Brien), 1976 Vol. 2, No 2, Realism Issue, 1974 Vol. 1, No. 1, Inaugural Issue, 1971 [Staff Prose editor on all issues 1971-90; 2008-09] Fiction and Personal Narratives in periodicals and anthologies: "Perspectives," non-fiction, SOLSTICE, Summer Issue, July, 2010 "A Tribute to 'Tornado at the Club,' from Evan S. Connell's Mrs. Bridge (as revised into the Screenplay, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)," fiction, WILDERNESS HOUSE LITERARY REVIEW #5/1, April, 2010 "What If?" essay, WILDERNESS HOUSE LITERARY REVIEW, April 2008 "Train Station," story, NIGHT TRAIN #4, Fall 2004 "Besmirched," narrative, THE GREEN HILLS LITERARY LANTERN #15 (2004) "On Aging," narrative, THE IOWA REVIEW, 34/1, Spring 2004 (cited as distinctive in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2004). "Dress Rehearsal," narrative, THE GREEN HILLS LITERARY LANTERN #14 (2003) "My Dog Story," narrative, THE NEBRASKA REVIEW, Spring 2003 (cited as distinctive in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, 2004). "Arias," narrative, THE GREEN HILLS LITERARY LANTERN #13 (2002) "Promises to Keep," narrative, PLOUGHSHARES (30th anniversary issue), 2001 "Forces of Nature: A Dream Retold," narrative, THE HARVARD REVIEW, 2001 "Innocents Abroad," narrative, AGNI, 2001 (Cited as distinctive in Best American Essays of 2002) "Gravity," narrative, IOWA REVIEW, 2001 "One Day" and "What Is A Jerk?" narratives, PAINTED MOON REVIEW, 2000 (www.paintedmoonreview.com/indexa.html) "Odd," narrative, COTTONWOOD REVIEW 5/4, Fall 1999 "First Love," narrative, AGNI REVIEW 49, 1999 "My Own Private Cambridge," narrative, NEBRASKA REVIEW, 27/1, Winter 1999 (cited a distinctive in Best American Essays 2000) "Beautiful Flower," narrative, BERKELEY FICTION REVIEW 18, Summer 1998 "Wide Awake," narrative, MISSOURI REVIEW, Spring 1998 (cited as distinctive in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1999) "Wide-eyed," narrative, FATHERING DAUGHTERS, eds Henry and McPherson, Beacon Press, 1998 "Improvisational," narrative, IOWA REVIEW, Spring 1998 "Departures, narrative, THE COLORADO REVIEW XXV, Spring 1998 "Embodiment," narrative, NERVE, Fall 1997 (www.nervemag.com/contributors/Henry) "Subversions," narrative, THE NEBRASKA REVIEW, Jan. 1997 (cited as distinctive in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1998) "Memoir of My Father," narrative, THE AMERICAN VOICE, October, 1996 (cited as distinctive in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1997) "Bungee," narrative, THE IOWA REVIEW, Spring 1996 (cited as distinctive in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1997) "On My Racism: Notes by a WASP," narrative, PLOUGHSHARES, 1990 (cited as distinctive in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1991) "Courtship," fiction, THE EMERSON REVIEW, Winter 1990 "Witness," narrative, THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIV, 1989(revised and expanded from BOULEVARD below) "Witness," narrative, BOULEVARD 1988 (won $1000 Boulevard Fiction Award for best of the year) "Subjunctive Lives," fiction, THE TEXAS REVIEW, 1989 (lead story) "Lord of Autumn," fiction, PLOUGHSHARES (ed. Ellen Wilbur), 1984; cited as distinctive in PUSHCART PRIZE listing "Hospital," novel excerpt, AGNI REVIEW #15, 1981 "Possession," novel excerpt, PLOUGHSHARES (ed. Dan Wakefield), 1981; cited as distinctive in PUSHCART listing "Ballgame," novel excerpt, PLOUGHSHARES 1/1, 1971 Selected Articles, Criticism, Interviews, Reviews: Review of IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE by Josh Frank with Charlie Buckholtz, Harvard Review, No. 37, 2010 Review of RAYMOND CARVER: A WRITER'S LIFE by Carol Sklenicka, The Boston Globe, December 20, 2009. Review of WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING by Haruki Murakami, Ploughshares, Vol. 35, No. 2, Fall 2009 Review of FAMILY BIBLE by Melissa J. Delbridge, American Book Review, Vol. 30, No.3, March/April 2009 Review of THE THING ITSELF by Richard Todd, Ploughshares Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter, 2008) "Profile of James Alan McPherson," Ploughshares Vol.34, No. 2 & 3 (Fall, 2008) Comments from AWP Panel on Richard Yates, "Points of Craft From Richard Yates (4/7/08)," The Richard Yates Archive,www.richardyates.org/bib_henry.html Writing exercise, "Simultaneous Actions in Fiction," in NAMING THE WORLD, edited by Bret Anthony Johnston (Random, 2008). Review of THE MISTRESS'S DAUGHTER by A.M. Homes, The Boston Globe, 6/20/07 "Ape and Essence," review of new and classic books about King Kong,The Boston Globe, December 11, 2005 Review of REAR VIEW: STORIES by Pete Duval, The Boston Globe, August 1, 2004 Review of CORPUS CHRISTI STORIES by Bret Anthony Johnston, The Boston Globe, June 27, 2004 Review of SECRET FREQUENCIES by John Skoyles, The Boston Globe, June 6, 2004 Review of GOAT: A MEMOIR by Brad Land, The Boston Globe, February 29, 2004 Review of LOS ANGELES DIARIES by James Brown, The Boston Globe, September 28, 2003 Review of A TRAGIC HONESTY: THE LIFE AND WORK OF RICHARD YATES by Blake Bailey, The Boston Globe, July 13, 2003 "Literary Magazines," chapter in CREATIVE WRITING IN AMERICA (National Council of Teachers of English, 1991) "Literary Publishing and the Libraries: Part II," Wilson Library Bulletin, Feb. 1981 "Literary Publishing and the Libraries: Part I," Wilson Library Bulletin, 1980 "Public Publishing in Boston," essay, ANTIOCH REVIEW, Spring 1980 (cited as distinctive in PUSHCART listing) "On the History of the Literary Magazine," essay/review, AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW, June, 1979 "Richard Yates's DISTURBING THE PEACE," essay/critique, PLOUGHSHARES 3/1, 1976 "The Novels of Brian Moore," essay, PLOUGHSHARES 2/2, 1974" Interview with Richard Yates," interview (with Geoffrey Clark), PLOUGHSHARES 1/3, May 1976 (republished in TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW 50, Winter 1974); for original audio recording see http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/d/dewitt_henry/yatesinterview.mp3 My InterestsCourses taught at Emerson: Shakespearian Tragedy (undergraduate) Shakespearian Comedy (undergraduate) Contemporary American Short Story (undergraduate) Contemporary American Novel (undergraduate) Classic American Short Story (graduate) Contemporary American Short Story (graduate) Fiction Writing Seminar (undergraduate) Advanced Fiction Writing (graduate) Memoir Writing (graduate) Postmodern American Fiction (graduate) Literary Editing (undergraduate and graduate) Other: Marathon running (12 completed, but a spectator now) 10K running (at least once a year, especially the James Joyce 10K in Dedham, Mass at the end of each April) |
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