Drue Heinz

Doreen Mary Heinz (née English; March 8, 1915 – March 30, 2018), known as Drue Heinz, was a British-born American actress, philanthropist, arts patron, and socialite. 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 other initiatives. She was married to H. J. Heinz II, president of Heinz.

Biography Born Doreen Mary English in Norfolk, England, to Patrick Harry English, an army officer, and Edith English (née Wodehouse), They had a daughter Marigold Randall. 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. Using the name Drue Mallory, she was cast in three 1950 movies: Please Believe Me, starring Deborah Kerr, Three Came Home and Breakthrough. and a winter retreat in Hobe Sound, Florida. in Lasswade, Scotland.

Philanthropic and literary career In 1971, with the encouragement of her friend James Laughlin, Heinz co-founded Ecco Press.

She was the sponsor of The Royal Oak Foundation's Drue Heinz Lecture Series and served as the Foundation's Honorary Chairman. 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 was an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.