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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.[1] He also
teaches occasionally at The George Washington
University.
See also
List of historical
novelists
Bibliography
parenthetical details from WorldCat
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)
Fiction
Reviews
Naomi Bliven (21 January 1985).
"Quiddities". The New Yorker 60
(49): 92–93.
Review of A
Book of One's Own.
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