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| Born | April 5, 1941 Philadelphia, PA |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Memoirs, publishing, editing |
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Bill Henderson (born April 5, 1941) is an American author, editor and publisher best known for his memoirs and the Pushcart Prize series.
Bill Henderson is founder and editor of Pushcart Press, publisher of the annual Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses . His anthology, featuring fiction, poetry and essays, has earned national recognition and is celebrating its 40th anniversary. [1] Pushcart Press was awarded the 1979 Carey Thomas Prize for Publisher of the Year by Publishers Weekly . [2]
He has also edited and published many other books, including The Publish-It-Yourself Handbook (1973), [3] The Art of Literary Publishing (1980), [4] and Rotten Reviews (1986) [5] a look at negative reviews of now-classic literature, and Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club (1995) [6]
Henderson received the 2005 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle [7] and the 2006 Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble's "Writers for Writers." [8] He was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2020 citation for Distinguished Service to the Arts. [9]
Henderson is the author of the novel The Kid That Could (1970); and the memoirs His Son (1980); Her Father (1995); Tower (2000); [10] Simple Gifts (2006); and All My Dogs: A Life (2011). [11] His most recent memoir, Cathedral: An Illness and a Healing [12] was published in 2014. Two New York Times articles detail Tower and Cathedral. [13] [14]
Henderson lives on the East End of Long Island and in Maine with his wife, Genie Chipps Henderson. His daughter, Lily Frances Henderson, is a filmmaker and director based in Brooklyn, New York. [15] [16] He owns and runs "The World's Smallest Bookstore", [17] located in Sedgwick, Maine. [18]
Ann Patchett is an American author. She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), Taft (1994), The Magician's Assistant (1997), Run (2007), State of Wonder (2011), Commonwealth (2016), The Dutch House (2019), and Tom Lake (2023). The Dutch House was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to submit up to six works they have featured. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976. It is supported and staffed by volunteers.
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Pushcart Press is a publishing house established in 1972 by Bill Henderson and is perhaps most famous for its Pushcart Prize and for the anthology of prize winners it publishes annually. The press has been honored by Publishers Weekly as one of the USA's "most influential publishers" with the 1979 Carey Thomas Prize for publisher of the year. It has also won the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle and the 2006 Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize.
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