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Henderson, Bill, 1941-


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    • William Charles
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    • Henderson, William Charles, 1941-
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    • found: Henderson, Bill. The publish-it-yourself handbook, 1973.
    • found: Encyclopedia.com, 15 June 2020:Henderson, William Charles 1941- (Henderson, William Charles 1941- (Bill Henderson, Luke Walton); Born April 5, 1941, in Philadelphia, PA; wife's name Genie (a writer); children: Lily. Address, home and office: Wainscott, NY. Education: Hamilton College, B.A., 1963; graduate study, Harvard University, 1963, and University of Pennsylvania, 1965-66. Career: Nautilus Books, Plainfield, NJ, cofounder (with his uncle), 1970 (soon folded); Doubleday & Co., New York, NY, associate editor, 1972-73; Pushcart Press, Wainscott, NY, founder and publisher, 1972- (launched 1973); Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York, NY, senior editor, 1973-75; Harper & Row, New York, NY, consulting editor, 1975-78; guest lecturer at universities and colleges, 1974-1989; Library of Congress, Center for the Book, member of national advisory board, 1979; Pushcart Foundation, president, 1984-87. Writings: The Galapagos Kid (under pseudonym Luke Walton; novel, 1971), His Son: A Child of the Fifties (memoir, 1981), The Kid That Could (1990), Her Father: A Memoir (1995), Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction (2000; memoir); editor of [many books, particularly ones published by Pushcart Press]; the author's papers are housed in a permanent collection at the Lilly Library of Indiana University) - https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/henderson-william-charles-1941-bill-henderson-luke-walton
    • found: Archives online at Indiana University, 15 June 2020:Henderson mss., 1975-2005, finding aid (creator: Henderson, Bill, 1941- ; Henderson mss., 1975-2005 (with additions, 2007); consist primarily of the papers and manuscripts of author and editor Bill Henderson; biographical note: William Charles Henderson; he and his uncle Howard Galloway started small publishing house Nautilus Books in 1970, which then published Henderson's first novel The Galapagos Kid under pseudonym Luke Walton; neither novel nor publishing house proved successful; in 1973, Henderson launched Pushcart Press with The Publish it Yourself Handbook-Literary Tradition and How-To Without Commercial or Vanity Publishers, compiled and edited by him; started Pushcart Prize series in 1976, annual anthology that celebrates small presses and little magazines and their writers; has also written several volumes of memoirs, essays and book reviews for New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere; acquisition information: purchase, 2005) - http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/findingaids/lilly/InU-Li-VAA3755
    • found: Wikipedia, 16 June 2020:Bill Henderson (publisher) (Bill Henderson (born April 5, 1941); American author, editor and publisher best known for his memoirs and the Pushcart Prize series; also author of novel The Kid That Could (1970 [i.e., 1990]); received 2005 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from National Book Critics Circle and 2006 Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble's "Writers for Writers"; owns and runs "The World's Smallest Bookstore," located in Sedgwick, Maine; lives on East End of Long Island and in Maine with his wife, Genie Chipps Henderson; his daughter, Lily Frances Henderson, is filmmaker and director based in Brooklyn, New York) - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Henderson_(publisher)&oldid=842650542
    • found: Wikidata, 16 June 2020(Bill Henderson (Q24006602); no description defined; sex or gender: male; occupation: editor) - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24006602
    • found: LC files, 15 June 2020:Walton, Luke, 1941- (access point: Walton, Luke, 1941- ; no usage given; alternative literary classification number: PS3573.A473; publication statement: No[rth] Plainfield, N.J., Nautilus Books, [1971])
    • found: Chipps, Genie. A woman of the world, c2004:title page (Genie Chipps Henderson) page 373 (writes and produces documentaries for regional television on the East End of Long Island; coauthor of two nonfiction books, The woman's guide to starting a business and Supergirls: the autobiography of an outrageous business; resides in East Hampton, Long Island, with husband Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press publisher); A woman of the world is her first novel)
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    • 1979-06-20: new
    • 2023-09-08: revised
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