First Love: A Memoir

DeWitt Henry is a writer and founding editor of Ploughshares. He has authored one novel and a collection of essays, Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays, and Meditations (Red Hen Press, 2008). He has also edited several more collections, including Sorrow’s Company (Beacon, 2001), and Fathering Daughters (Beacon, 1999). (updated 7/2010)