16 Facts About Thomas Mallon

Thomas Mallon was born on November 2,1951 and is an American novelist, essayist, and critic.

Thomas Mallon's 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.

Thomas Mallon is the author of ten books of fiction, including Henry and Clara, Two Moons, Dewey Defeats Truman, Aurora 7, Bandbox, Fellow Travelers, Watergate, Finale, Landfall, and most recently Up With the Sun.

Thomas Mallon has published nonfiction on plagiarism, diaries, letters and the Kennedy assassination, as well as two volumes of essays.

Thomas Mallon 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.

Thomas Mallon 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.

Thomas Mallon's 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.

Thomas Mallon 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.

Thomas Mallon's father, Arthur Mallon, was a salesman and his mother, Caroline, kept the home.

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

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

Thomas Mallon then began publishing fiction, a genre in which he had informally dabbled throughout childhood and young adulthood.

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

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

Openly gay, Thomas Mallon currently lives with his longtime partner, William Bodenschatz, in Washington, DC, and is a professor emeritus of English at The George Washington University.