Allen Drury

Allen Stuart Drury ( born September 2, 1918 in Houston, Texas; † 2 September 1998 in Tiburon, California ) was an American journalist and writer who for his debut novel Advise and Consent won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960.

Biography

After schooling, he studied journalism at Stanford University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Journalism ) from. During the Second World War he did his military service in the U.S. Army. Later, he was from 1954 to 1959 as a reporter for the daily newspaper The New York Times operates.

In 1959 he published with Advise and Consent his debut novel, and received for this 1960 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This was filmed by Otto Preminger with a star cast (Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray ) in 1962 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 in the year of his death, Public Men ( 1998). In addition, he also wrote non-fiction books such as A Very Strange Society ( 1967), a representation of the Republic of South Africa under apartheid.

External links and sources

• Allen Drury in the Notable Names Database (English)
• Fantastic Fiction
• THE WASHINGTON POST: Allen Drury, Father Of the DC Drama ( obituary, September 4, 1998)
• Allen Drury and the Washington Novel (The Hoover Institution )
• Books by Allen Drury ( Bookfinder.com )