Thomas Mallon
Thomas Mallon (born November 2, 1951) is a novelist and critic. He was born in Glen Cove, New York. He attended Brown University as an undergraduate and earned a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He received the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in 1994 and won a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1987. Mallon taught English at Vassar College from 1979-1991.
Mallon is the author of the novels Henry and Clara, Two Moons, Dewey Defeats Truman, Aurora 7, Bandbox, Fellow Travelers, and most recently Watergate; as well as writing four works of nonfiction. He is a former literary editor of GQ, where he wrote the "Doubting Thomas" column for ten years, and has contributed frequently to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Scholar, and Harper's. He was appointed a member of the National Council on the Humanities in 2002 and became Director of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2004. He then served as Deputy Chairman of the NEH.
He lives in Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood in Washington, DC.[1] He is Director of the Creative Writing Program at The George Washington University.
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[edit] Bibliography
Parenthetical details from WorldCat.
[edit] Nonfiction
- Mrs. Paine's garage and the murder of John F. Kennedy (3 editions published between 2002 and 2003)
- In fact: essays on writers and writing (2001)
- Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism (1989 and 1991)
- A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries (6 editions published between 1984 and 1995)
- Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir (ghostwriter for Dan Quayle, published 1995) [2]
- Edmund Blunden (1983)
[edit] Fiction
- Watergate (2012)
- Fellow Travelers (2007)
- Bandbox (3 editions published between 2004 and 2005)
- Two moons: a novel (2 editions published between 2000 and 2001)
- Dewey Defeats Truman: a novel (3 editions published between 1996 and 1998)
- Henry and Clara (5 editions published between 1994 and 1998)
- Arts and Sciences: A Seventies Seduction(1988)
[edit] Reviews
Naomi Bliven (21 January 1985). "Quiddities". The New Yorker 60 (49): 92–93. Review of A Book of One's Own.
[edit] External links
- 2008 Thomas Mallon interview on Littoral: the blog of the Key West Literary Seminar
- Mostly Fiction Review of Bandbox
- Audio interview of Thomas Mallon
- An Interview with Thomas Mallon by Paul Morton, Bookslut, August 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ Will O'Bryan (17 May 2007). "Making History: Thomas Mallon's 'Fellow Travelers' find gay romance in McCarthy-era Washington". Metro Weekly. http://metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=2702. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ Joe Queenan (20 March 2005). "Ghosts in the Machine". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/books/review/020QUEENA.html?pagewanted=2. Retrieved 2009-11-16.
