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
. He also teaches occasionally at The George
Washington University
.
See also
List of historical
novelists
Bibliography
parenthetical details from
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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)
- Edmund Blunden (1983)
Fiction
Reviews
Review of A Book of One's Own.
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