Name: | Thomas Mallon |
Occupation: | Novelist |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | November 2, 1951 |
Age: | 69 |
Country: | United States |
Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio |
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Before Fame
He attended Brown University and later earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard.
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Thomas Vincent Mallon was born in Glen Cove, New York and grew up in Stewart Manor, N.Y., on Long Island. His father, Arthur Mallon, was a salesman and his mother, Caroline, kept the home. 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.”
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.” The success of A Book of One’s Own won Mallon a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1986.
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). 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. 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.
Mallon then began publishing fiction, a genre in which he’d informally dabbled throughout childhood and young adulthood. Mallon published his first novel, Arts and Sciences, in 1988 about Arthur Dunne, a 22-year-old Harvard graduate student in English. Soon after its publication, in 1989, Mallon released a second nonfiction book called Stolen Words: Forays Into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism.
Henry and Clara, published in 1994, established Mallon as a writer of historical fiction from that point forward. 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. 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.
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