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Drue Heinz (Doreen Mary English) was born on 8 March, 1915 in Norfolk, England, is an American philanthropist of literature (1915–2018). Discover Drue Heinz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 103 years old?

Popular As Doreen Mary English
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Age 103 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 8 March 1915
Birthday 8 March
Birthplace Norfolk, England
Date of death 2018
Died Place Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland
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Who Is Drue Heinz's Wife?

His wife is John Mackenzie Robertson Dale Wilford Maher (m. 1946-1948) H. J. Heinz II (m. 1953-1987)

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Wife John Mackenzie Robertson Dale Wilford Maher (m. 1946-1948) H. J. Heinz II (m. 1953-1987)
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Drue Heinz Net Worth

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1915

Drue Heinz, DBE (born Doreen Mary English; March 8, 1915 – March 30, 2018) was a British-born American actress, philanthropist, arts patron, and socialite.

1938

With Heinz she became the stepmother of John Heinz (1938–91) who later became a Pennsylvania United States Senator.

Prior to her marriage to Heinz she was an actress.

1948

Her second husband was Dale Wilford Maher, the first Secretary of the U. S. Legation in Johannesburg, South Africa (died 1948).

They had a daughter Marigold Randall.

As "Doreen English" she had a small role in the 1948 movie Uneasy Terms, which starred Michael Rennie.

1950

Using the name Drue Mallory, she was cast in three 1950 movies, Please Believe Me, starring Deborah Kerr, Three Came Home and Breakthrough.

The Heinz home in Pittsburgh was called "Goodwood", in Sewickley Heights.

They also had an apartment in New York's Upper East Side, and a winter retreat in Hobe Sound, Florida.

For many years, their British home was Ascot Place at North Ascot in Winkfield, Berkshire.

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

She 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.

The Heinz Italian home, called Villa Maresi, was on Lake Como in the town of Griante.

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

"She was very close to Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser," according to Daniel Halpern, founder of Ecco Press.

Of her character, Teresa Heinz said "Drue was a very private person but she came to know an amazing group of people in her life. She was smart and passionate and deeply interested in art, literature, and especially poetry."

Of her reputation, Jonathan Galassi, President, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, said

1953

In 1953, Drue became the third wife of H. J. Heinz II (1908–87), then president of Heinz company and heir to the Heinz fortune.

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

1970

In addition to the literary magazine Antaeus, which she funded from 1970 to its closing in 1994, Ecco published many out of print books, and was one of the leading US publishers of poetry.

In 1970, she restored an old movie theater into the Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, which was the founding institution of what would later become the Cultural District, Pittsburgh.

1971

In 1971, with the encouragement of her friend James Laughlin, she co-founded Ecco Press.

1980

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

1990

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

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

Funds from her foundation help publish the Lincoln Center Theater Review.

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

1993

She was the publisher of the literary magazine The Paris Review (1993 to 2007), co-founded Ecco Press, founded literary retreats and endowed the Drue Heinz Literature Prize among others.

She was married to H. J. Heinz II, president of Heinz.

Born Doreen Mary English in Norfolk, England to Patrick Harry English, an army officer, and Edith English (née Wodehouse), she first married John Mackenzie Robertson with whom she had one daughter, Wendy Mackenzie.

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

1995

In 1995, she endowed the prize with a $1 million gift at which point it became known as the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

The prize publishes collections of short fiction through the University of Pittsburgh Press.

1999

When the archives of The Paris Review were sold to the Morgan Library in 1999, Heinz paid the purchase price of $850,000.

2002

In 2002, Heinz endowed a Chair jointly held at St. John's College, Oxford and the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford called the Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature.

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

She sponsored the Literary Evenings, Monday Night Lecture Series produced by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Drue Heinz Study Center for Drawings and Prints at the National Design Museum.

2018

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

"The revenue from that million has exceeded the needs of the press for publication and promotion of the Heinz books so it keeps growing," said Ed Ochester, editor of the press in 2018.

Heinz also endowed the Hawthornden Prize for many years.