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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?
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Doreen Mary English |
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8 March 1915 |
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Norfolk, England |
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2018 |
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Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland |
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Drue Heinz Height, Weight & Measurements
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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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John Mackenzie Robertson
Dale Wilford Maher (m. 1946-1948)
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Drue Heinz Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Drue Heinz worth at the age of 103 years old? Drue Heinz’s income source is mostly from being a successful actress. He is from . We have estimated Drue Heinz's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Drue Heinz, DBE (born Doreen Mary English; March 8, 1915 – March 30, 2018) was a British-born American actress, philanthropist, arts patron, and socialite.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
In 1971, with the encouragement of her friend James Laughlin, she co-founded Ecco Press.
Heinz began supporting the University of Pittsburgh's fiction prize in 1980.
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.
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.
Heinz was close friends with the founder, George Plimpton, and was herself publisher of the Review from 1993 to 2007.
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.
When the archives of The Paris Review were sold to the Morgan Library in 1999, Heinz paid the purchase price of $850,000.
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.
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.