Drue Heinz
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Drue Heinz is a prominent patron of the literary arts in the United States.
She is the publisher of the famous literary magazine The Paris Review, which was started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton. Its first publisher was Prince Sadruddhin Aga Khan.
Heinz 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 has also endowed a chair at St. John's College, Oxford called the Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature.
Heinz was the second wife of H. J. Heinz II, and stepmother to United States Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania.
She resides in Manhattan.
