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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Other people Шаблон:Notability Шаблон:Infobox person Henry Southworth Allen (born 1941 in Summit, New Jersey)[1] is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, journalist, poet, and artist.[2]

Biography

Education

Allen obtained his degree in English and art at Hamilton College[1] and Montgomery College.[2]

Career

Allen began his painting and drawing in the late 1960s.[3]

He was a stationed in Vietnam in the mid-1960s[4] as a U.S. Marine.[1]

Allen was a critic for The New York Review of BooksШаблон:Citation needed and worked on staff for the New Haven Register.[4] As a staff writer for the Style section, he worked at The Washington Post for 39 years.[3] In 1975, he was awarded a NEH Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan.[5][1] He left The Washington Post in 2009 after an altercation with a fellow staffer (although he had already announced his resignation and was planning on leaving a few weeks later).[3][4]

Allen then began teaching courses in cultural analysis in the University of Maryland honors program.[1]

Allen had solo shows in June 2009 at Strathmore Hall and in August 2012 at the Chebeague Island Library.[2]

Awards and honors

Allen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2000 for his writings in The Washington Post on photography.[1]

Appearances

He appeared on the Colbert Report, February 2, 2010.

Bibliography

  • Fool's Mercy (Houghton Mifflin, 1984) Шаблон:ISBN — thriller novel
  • Going Too Far Enough: American Culture at Century's End (Smithsonian, 1994) Шаблон:ISBN— collection of Washington Post columns
  • The Museum of Lost Air: Poems (Dryad Press, 1998)
  • What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century (Pantheon Books, October 2000) Шаблон:ISBN
  • Where We Lived: Essays on Places (Mandel Vilar Press, 2017) Шаблон:ISBN

References

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External links

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