Zenna Henderson

Adaptations in other media Henderson's story "Pottage" was made into the 1972 ABC-TV Movie, The People, featuring William Shatner, Kim Darby, and Diane Varsi, and concerning the story of a group of human extraterrestrials who live in an isolated rural community on Earth. It was the directorial debut for John Korty and was produced by his sometime partner Francis Ford Coppola. It has been released on VHS format by Prism Entertainment and DVD format by American Zoetrope. The Monster Times reported in November 1972 that a sequel was in the pipeline, Birds in the Wilderness; no such film appeared.

Henderson's story "Hush" was adapted as an episode of the George A. Romero TV series Tales from the Darkside. The episode first aired in 1988.

Henderson's 1965 book The Anything Box inspired the naming of American synthpop band Anything Box in 1986. They perform a paraphrased excerpt from the story in their 1990 track "Our Dreams (Edit the Dream)."

Awards Henderson was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959 for her novelette "Captivity". Her books were long out of print until the 1995 release of Ingathering: The Complete People Stories, published by the New England Science Fiction Association Press. Ingathering was a second place finalist in the 1996 Locus Award for Best Collection.