Henry I. Schvey

Henry I. Schvey is a scholar, playwright, memoirist, and theater director. He has taught in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis since 1987. Recent publications include the memoir The Poison Tree (2017); After the Fox: The Influence of D.H. Lawrence on Tennessee Williams” (TWAR, 2018); “‘The Place I Was Made For’: Tennessee Williams in New Orleans,” (New Orleans: A Literary History, Cambridge U. P., 2019), and Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams (U. of Missouri Press, 2021).