Doreen 'Drue' Mary Heinz (English)

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Doreen Mary Heinz (English)

Also Known As: "Drue"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
Death: March 30, 2018 (103)
Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Patrick Harry English and Edith English
Wife of John Mackenzie Robertson; Dale Wilford Maher and Henry John 'Jack' Heinz
Mother of Private and Private

Occupation: Socialite
Managed by: Kevin Lawrence Hanit
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About Doreen 'Drue' Mary Heinz (English)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drue_Heinz

Drue Heinz, born Doreen Mary English, was 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 and serves as the Foundation's Honorary Chairman. 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 Literary Evenings, Monday Night Lecture Series produced by Pittsburgh Arts & 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 'Drue' Mary Heinz (English)'s Timeline

1915
March 8, 1915
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
2018
March 30, 2018
Age 103
Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom