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Thomas Mallon was born on 2 November, 1951 in Glen Cove, New York, U.S., is an American novelist, essayist, and critic (born 1951). Discover Thomas Mallon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Born 2 November, 1951
Birthday 2 November
Birthplace Glen Cove, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1865

The Novel traces the lives of Major Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris, the young couple who accompanied Abraham Lincoln to Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.

A story of star-crossed lovers intermingles with personal and political tragedies and spans the couple's first meeting in childhood to their eventual derangement.

Mallon's writing career took a dramatic turn when John Updike praised Henry and Clara in The New Yorker, calling Mallon "one of the most interesting American novelists at work."

Historical fiction, Mallon has declared in interviews, is the genre in which he is most interested as a writer.

"I think the main thing that has led me to write historical fiction is that it is a relief from the self," he explains.

1951

Thomas Mallon (born November 2, 1951) is an American novelist, essayist, and critic.

His novels are renowned for their attention to historical detail and context and for the author's crisp wit and interest in the "bystanders" to larger historical events.

He is the author of ten books of fiction, including Henry and Clara, Two Moons, Dewey Defeats Truman, Aurora 7, Bandbox, Fellow Travelers (recently adapted into a miniseries by the same name), Watergate, Finale, Landfall, and most recently Up With the Sun.

He has also published nonfiction on plagiarism (Stolen Words), diaries (A Book of One's Own), letters (Yours Ever) and the Kennedy assassination (Mrs. Paine's Garage), as well as two volumes of essays (Rockets and Rodeos and In Fact).

1969

Mallon graduated from Sewanhaka High School in 1969.

He has often said that he had "the kind of happy childhood that is so damaging to a writer".

Mallon studied English at Brown University, where he wrote his undergraduate honors thesis on American author Mary McCarthy.

He credits McCarthy, with whom he later became friends, as the most enduring influence on his career as a writer.

Mallon earned a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he wrote his dissertation on the English World War I poet Edmund Blunden.

1979

The book's rather unexpected success earned Mallon tenure at Vassar College, where he taught English from 1979 to 1991.

Mallon's writing style is characterized by wit, charm and a meticulous attention to detail and character development.

His nonfiction often explores "fringe" genres—diaries, letters, plagiarism—just as his fiction frequently tells the stories of characters "on the fringes of big events".

1982

On sabbatical from Vassar College in 1982–1983, Mallon spent a year as a visiting scholar at St. Edmund's House (later College) at Cambridge University, where he drafted most of A Book of One's Own, a work of nonfiction about diarists and diary-writing.

1984

A Book of One's Own, an informal guide to the great diaries of literature, was published in 1984 and gave Mallon his first dose of critical acclaim.

Richard Eder, writing in the Los Angeles Times (28 November 1984) called the book "an engaging meditation on the varied and irrepressible spirit of life that insists on preserving itself on paper."

In A Book of One's Own, Mallon covers a wide range of diarists from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin.

He explained his enthusiasm for the genre by saying: "Writing books is too good an idea to be left to authors."

1986

The success of A Book of One's Own won Mallon a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1986.

Mallon then began publishing

fiction, a genre in which he had informally dabbled throughout childhood and young adulthood.

1988

Mallon published his first Novel, Arts and Sciences, in 1988 about Arthur Dunne, a 22-year-old Harvard graduate student in English.

1989

Soon after its publication, in 1989, Mallon released a second nonfiction book called Stolen Words: Forays Into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism.

1990

He is a former literary editor of Gentleman's Quarterly, where he wrote the "Doubting Thomas" column in the 1990s, and has contributed frequently to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Scholar, and other periodicals.

1994

Henry and Clara, published in 1994, established Mallon as a writer of historical fiction from that point forward.

American political history has been perhaps his main subject and interest; in 1994, he was the ghostwriter of former Vice President Dan Quayle's memoir, Standing Firm.

2002

He was appointed a member of the National Council on the Humanities in 2002 and served as Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2005 to 2006.

His honors include Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, the National Book Critics Circle citation for reviewing, and the Vursell prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinguished prose style.

2012

He was elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

Thomas Vincent Mallon was born in Glen Cove, New York, and grew up in Stewart Manor, New York, both on Long Island.

His father, Arthur Mallon, was a salesman and his mother, Caroline, kept the home.

After the publication of Henry and Clara, Mallon went on to write seven more works of historical fiction, including his most recent novels, Watergate (2012), Finale (2015), and Landfall (2019).

2013

Watergate, a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, is a retelling of the Watergate scandal from the perspective of seven characters, some familiar to the public memory, such as Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods, and some brought to light from the sidelines of the scandal, such as Fred LaRue.

2015

Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years, one of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2015, takes readers to the political gridiron of Washington in 1986; the wealthiest enclaves of southern California; and the volcanic landscape of Iceland, where President Ronald Reagan engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev.

Readers of Finale find themselves in the shoes of many characters both central and peripheral to the Reagan presidency – from Nancy Reagan to Richard Nixon to actress Bette Davis.

2019

Landfall, Mallon's 2019 Novel, takes place during the George W. Bush years against a backdrop of political catastrophe: the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina, in particular.