Allen Drury's picture
7 followers

Allen Drury


(Allen Stuart Drury)
USA flag (1918 - 1998)

Allen Drury was a 25-year old army veteran looking for work. A position as the United States Senate correspondent for United Press International provided Drury not only with employment, but with an insider's knowledge of the United States Senate. 

Drury lived in Tiburon, California from 1964 until his 1998 death of cardiac arrest. Drury had completed his 20th novel, ''Public Men'' set at Stanford, just two weeks before his death. He died on 2 September 1998 at St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco, California, on his eightieth birthday. Drury was never married.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
Advise and Consent
   1. Advise and Consent (1959)
   2. A Shade of Difference (1962)
   3. Capable of Honor (1966)
   4. Preserve and Protect (1968)
   5. Come Nineveh, Come Tyre (1973)
   6. The Promise of Joy (1975)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumb
 
thumbthumb
 
Mark Coffin
   1. Anna Hastings (1977)
   2. Mark Coffin, U. S. S. (1979)
   3. The Hill of Summer (1981)
   4. The Roads of Earth (1984)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
 
University
   1. Toward What Bright Glory? (1990)
   2. Into What Far Harbour? (1993)
   3. Public Men (1998)
thumbthumbthumb
 
Novels
   That Summer (1965)
   The Throne of Saturn (1970)
   Decision (1983)
   Pentagon (1986)
   The Destiny Makers (1988)
   A Thing of State (1995)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
no image availablethumb
 
Non fiction show
 
Allen Drury recommends
thumb
Handyman (1995)
Jean Heller
"Jean Heller is a first-rate journallist who has become a first-rate novelist."

Anthologies containing stories by Allen Drury
thumb
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 10th Series (1961)
(Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, book 10)
edited by
Robert P Mills

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1960) : Advise and Consent


Visitors also looked at these authors


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors