Thomas Mallon

Thomas Mallon is a novelist, essayist, and book reviewer who has received the Ingram Merrill Award for outstanding work as a writer. His essays and reviews appear regularly in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. A number of his novels have been based on real characters and situations in U. S. history, among them Aurora 7, Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, and Fellow Travelers. John Updike has called him "one of the most interesting American novelists at work."

Born in 1951, Mallon grew up on Long Island, attended Brown University, and received a Ph.D. in English from Harvard. He taught English for more than a decade at Vassar College and has served as literary editor of Gentlemen's Quarterly. The recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, he has also served as deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In addition to his fiction, Mallon is also the author of books about diaries (A Book of One's Own), plagiarism (Stolen Words), and the Kennedy assassination (Mrs. Paine's Garage). He lives in Washington, D. C. and New York City.

Bibliography:

Fellow Travelers (2007)

Bandbox (2004)

Mrs. Paine's Garage (2002)

In Fact: Essays on Writers and Writing (2001)

Two Moons (2000)

Dewey Defeats Truman (1997)

Henry and Clara (1994)

Rockets and Rodeos (1993)

Aurora 7 (1991)

Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism (1989)

Arts and Sciences (1988)

A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries (1984)

Edmund Blunden (1983)

Links:

Birnbaum interview
Wag interview
Essay: "The Historical Novelist's Burden of Truth"
Metro interview
Littoral interview