Judith Hillery Higgins ’58

Judith Hillery Higgins ’58, of Princeton, N.J.; Jan. 16, from Parkinson’s. She was an associate editor at Random House and Praeger publishers. She wrote and edited ad copy for the former Lawrenceville, N.J.-based Gillespie Organization and Dana Associates. Her articles, short stories, and reviews were published in the Princeton Review, Atlantic, Texas Quarterly, Southern Review, ARTnews, and Art in America;  her story “The Only People” was published in The Best American Short Stories in 1968.  She created Envoy, a biannual poetry newsletter published by the Academy of American Poets. She was awarded Brown’s Tristam Burges Premium for her outstanding work in English and the Anne Crosby Emery Alumnae Fellowship to study creative writing at Trinity College in Dublin. Phi Beta Kappa. She enjoyed traveling, walking in the woods, attending plays, and drawing humorous holiday cards. She is survived by her son, a brother and his three children, and a cousin and her five children.