Thomas Mallon

novelist and critic

Selected Works

Fiction

Watergate: A Novel
"Mallon himself is deliciously witty. But it is his political fluency and unstinting empathy that transform the Watergate debacle into a universal tragicomedy of ludicrous errors and malignant crimes, epic hubris and sorrow." --Booklist (starred review)

Fellow Travelers
"Some of the most lucid prose in contemporary American literature . . . [Mallon's] best book yet."

--Los Angeles Times

Bandbox
"Retro in style, modern in sensibility, compact, imaginative, and wildly entertaining."

--San Francisco Chronicle

Essays

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
“An astute, exhilarating tour of the mailbag . . . a charming, discursive delight. ‘Yours Ever’ is nuanced, informed, full-blooded, a vigorous literary salute."

--New York Times Book Review

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Events

On May 18, 2011, Thomas Mallon received the $10,000 Harold D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in recognition of the quality of his prose style.

Panelist, “Provocation: Literary Criticism Today,” with Daniel Mendelsohn. Part of “The Future of Criticism: A Conference in Honor of Roger Shattuck,” sponsored by The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, New York City, April 17, 2010. Other participants included Denis Donoghue, Christopher Ricks, Morris Dickstein and Liesl Schillinger.

Discussion of Yours Ever at Symphony Space, with John Freeman (The Tyranny of E-Mail, ticketed event, NYC, January 20, 2010.

Panel discussion with Roy Blount, Jr. and David Wolman at Miami Book Fair, November 15, 2009. (Promotion of Yours Ever.)