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", and most recently "Fellow Travelers"; 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. [cite news |url= http://metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=2702 |title = Making History: Thomas Mallon's 'Fellow Travelers' find gay romance in McCarthy-era Washington |publisher = Metro Weekly |author = Will O'Bryan |date= 17 May 2007 |accessdate = 2008-03-13 ] He also teaches occasionally at The George Washington University.

See also

List of historical novelists

References

Bibliography

parenthetical details from [http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-162268 WorldCat]

Nonfiction

* Mrs. Paine's garage and the murder of John F. Kennedy (3 editions published between 2002 and 2003)
* [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/701728.In_Fact_Essays_on_Writers_and_Writing 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)
* Edmund Blunden (1983)

Fiction

* [http://metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=2702 Fellow Travelers] (2007)
* Bandbox (3 editions published between 2004 and 2005)
* Two moons: a novel (2 editions published between 2000 and 2001)
* [http://www.google.com/books?id=OqEKAAAACAAJ&dq=Thomas+Mallon&pgis=1 Dewey defeats Truman: a novel (3 editions published between 1996 and 1998)]
* [http://bookstasted.blogspot.com/2007/04/review-henry-and-clara.html Henry and Clara (5 editions published between 1994 and 1998)]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DA1F39F930A25750C0A96E948260 Arts and Sciences: A Seventies Seduction] (1988)

External links

* [http://www.kwls.org/lit/kwls_blog/2008/09/plausible_presencea_conversati.cfm 2008 Thomas Mallon interview on Littoral: the blog of the Key West Literary Seminar]
* [http://mostlyfiction.com/history/mallon.htm Mostly Fiction Review of Bandbox]
* [http://wiredforbooks.org/thomasmallon/ 1989 audio interview with Thomas Mallon at Wired for Books.org] by Don Swaim
* [http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_08_011476.php An Interview with Thomas Mallon] by Paul Morton, Bookslut, August 2007.