Allen Drury
Allen Stuart Drury (born September 2, 1918 in Houston , Texas , † September 2, 1998 in Tiburon , California ) was an American journalist and writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for novels in 1960 for his debut novel Advise and Consent .
biography
After attending school, he studied journalism at Stanford University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Journalism). During the Second World War he did his military service in the US Army . He later worked as a reporter for The New York Times newspaper from 1954 to 1959 .
In 1959 he published his debut novel Advise and Consent and received the Pulitzer Prize for novels for this in 1960. This was from 1962 Otto Preminger with a star cast ( Henry Fonda , Charles Laughton , Don Murray ) filmed and appeared in German cinemas, entitled Storm over Washington and engaged in the political life in Washington, DC and the Senate of the United States .
In the following years he wrote numerous other novels such as A Shade of Difference (1962), Senate Journal, 1943-1945 (1963), Capable of Honor (1966), Preserve and Protect (1968), The Throne of Saturn (1971), The Promise of Joy (1975), Anna Hastings (1977), The Hill of Summer (1981), A Thing of State (1995) and, the year he died, Public Men (1998). He also wrote non-fiction books such as A Very Strange Society (1967), a representation of the Republic of South Africa during the apartheid period .
Web links and sources
- Allen Drury in nndb (English)
- Fantastic fiction
- THE WASHINGTON POST: Allen Drury, Father Of the DC Drama (obituary, Sep 4, 1998)
- Allen Drury and the Washington Novel (The Hoover Institution)
- Books by Allen Drury (Bookfinder.com)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drury, Allen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drury, Allen Stuart (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston , Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1998 |
| Place of death | Tiburon , California |