Drue Heinz

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Who is Drue Heinz?

Drue Heinz, born Doreen Mary English, is an American patron of the literary arts. She is the publisher of the literary magazine The Paris Review, and also established the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Since 1981 it has recognized, through book publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press, outstanding collections of short fiction.

She is the sponsor of The Royal Oak Foundation's Drue Heinz Lecture Series. Heinz has also endowed a chair jointly held at St. John's College, Oxford and the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford called the Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature. She sponsors the Drue Heinz Lectures in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Drue Heinz Study Center for Drawings and Prints at the National Design Museum.

She inspired the creation of Heinz Hall Plaza in Pittsburgh and chose the sculpture there. Funds from her foundation generate exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art's Heinz Architectural Center and help publish the Lincoln Center Theater Review. She was a member of the Founding Council of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

As "Doreen English" she had a small role in the 1948 movie Uneasy Terms, which starred Michael Rennie.

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  • Doreen Mary English

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on July 23, 2013

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