Allen Drury
1918
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1998
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: novel
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: American English
educated at: Stanford University, Porterville High School
occupation: writer, novelist, journalist, diarist, science fiction writer
award received: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Golden Plate Award
Allen Stuart Drury (September 2, 1918 – September 2, 1998) was an American novelist. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, among others. He would convert these experiences into his first novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. Long afterwards, it was still being praised as ‘the definitive Washington tale’. His diaries from this period were published as A Senate Journal 1943–45. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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