Bill Henderson (publisher)

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]