19 Facts About Drue Heinz

Drue Heinz was the publisher of the literary magazine The Paris Review, co-founded Ecco Press, founded literary retreats and endowed the Drue Heinz Literature Prize among others.

Drue Heinz would buy houses, restore them and turn them into writers' retreats.

Drue Heinz purchased Hawthornden Castle, a medieval fortress outside Edinburgh, Scotland and made it into a place for writers to live and work called the Hawthornden Literary Retreat.

Drue Heinz called it "Casa Ecco", and writers would go there for discussions.

Drue Heinz was smart and passionate and deeply interested in art, literature, and especially poetry.

Drue Heinz died on March 30,2018, at age 103, at Hawthornden Castle in Lasswade, Scotland.

Drue Heinz began supporting the University of Pittsburgh's fiction prize in 1980.

Drue Heinz was close friends with the founder, George Plimpton, and was herself publisher of the Review from 1993 to 2007.

Drue Heinz was among those who helped found the paper in 1953 and over the years help fund it.

Drue Heinz gave $10 million to Carnegie Institute for the creation of the Drue Heinz Architectural Center in 1990.

Drue Heinz supported London's Tate Gallery and the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Drue Heinz was the sponsor of The Royal Oak Foundation's Drue Heinz Lecture Series and served as the Foundation's Honorary Chairman.

Drue Heinz endowed the position of the Drue Heinz Librarian at the American Academy in Rome.

Drue Heinz was on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MacDowell Colony, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the American Academy in Rome and served on the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art.

Drue Heinz joined the board of the Howard Heinz Endowment in 1973, which later became the Heinz Endowments, and became Director Emeritus in 1994.

Drue Heinz was a board member of the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Drue Heinz was named an Honorary Dame Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in July 1995.

In 2002, Drue Heinz was selected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Drue Heinz was an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.