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Mallon, Thomas was born on November 2, 1951 in Glen Cove, New York, United States. Son of Arthur Vincent and Caroline Mallon.
( "The definitive book on the subject" of plagiarism (The...)
"The definitive book on the subject" of plagiarism (The New York Times) is updated with a new afterword about the Internet. What is plagiarism, and why is it such a big deal? Since when is originality considered an indispensable attribute of authorship? Stolen Words is a deft and well-informed history of the sin every writer fears from every angle. Award-winning author Thomas Mallon begins in the seventeenth century and pushes forward toward scandals in publishing, academia, and Hollywood, exploring the motivations, consequences, and emotional reverberations of an intriguing and distressingly widespread practice. In this now-classic study, Mallon proves himself to be one of our most versatile, original, and delightful writers.
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(On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and C...)
On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris joined the Lincolns in the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater, becoming eyewitnesses to one of the great tragedies of American history. In this riveting novel, Thomas Mallon re-creates the unusual love story of this young engaged couple whose fateful encounter with history profoundly affects the remainder of their lives. Lincoln’s assassination is only one part of the remarkable life they share, a dramatic tale of passion, scandal, heroism, murder, and madness, all based on Mallon’s deep research into the fascinating history of the Rathbone and Harris families. Henry and Clara not only tells the astonishing story of its title figures; it also illuminates the culture of nineteenth-century Victorian America: a rigid society barely concealing the suppressed impulses and undercurrents that only grew stronger as the century progressed.
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(Twelve essays explore quintessentially American themes, o...)
Twelve essays explore quintessentially American themes, offering an account of Dan Quayle at a July 4th celebration, an Oklahoma rodeo, the trial of a bank robber, the launching of a space shuttle, and others.
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(From a writer whose last book, Henry and Clara, prompted ...)
From a writer whose last book, Henry and Clara, prompted John Updike to declare Thomas Mallon one of the most interesting American novelists at work, comes a story that perfectly captures the delightful romance and wistful magic of our recent, and more innocent, past. Thomas Mallon has masterfully appropriated a jubilant legend (and famous headline) of modern American history -- Harry Truman's upset victory over Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election -- and built around it a midwestern Midsummer Night's Dream. Set in Dewey's hometown of Owosso, Michigan, this is the captivating story of a local love triangle that mirrors the national election contest. As the voters must decide between candidates, so must Anne Macmurray choose between two suitors: an ardent UAW organizer and his polar opposite, a wealthy lawyer who's certain he will ride to state Senate victory on Republican coattails. As they weave a small-town tapestry of dreams and secrets, the people of Owosso ready themselves for the fame that is bound to shower down upon them after Dewey's "sure thing" victory. But as the novel -- and history -- move toward election night, we watch the citizens of Owosso, Anne Macmurray and her suitors in particular, await the outcome of the election and the rearrangement of their fates in a climax filled with suspense, chagrin, and unexpected joy.
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( "Cuddles Houlihan got clipped by the vodka bottle as it...)
"Cuddles Houlihan got clipped by the vodka bottle as it exited the pneumatic tube. . . ." With that bottle we enter Bandbox, a hugely successful magazine of the 1920s, run by bombastic Jehoshaphat "Joe" Harris. Harris's most ambitious protégé ("the bastard son he never had") has just defected to run the competition, plunging Bandbox into a newsstand death struggle. The magazine's fight for survival will soon involve a sabotaged fiction contest, the vice squad, a subscriber's kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the reader races from skyscraper to speakeasy. Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap romp of a book that brilliantly portrays Manhattan in the gaudiest American decade of them all.
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(It's 1950s Washington, D.C.: a world of bare-knuckled ide...)
It's 1950s Washington, D.C.: a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, dominated by personalities like Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy. Enter Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair. As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on “sexual subversives” in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives. Moving between the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO's front line in Europe, Fellow Travelers is a searing historical novel infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and genuine heartbreak.
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(In this delightful, highly charged novel, Mallon re-creat...)
In this delightful, highly charged novel, Mallon re-creates a single day--Thursday, May 24, 1962, the day Scott Carpenter made the historic Aurora 7 voyage. But Mallon adds a twist: a space-crazed 11-year-old, Gregory Noonan, goes on the voyage with Carpenter--in spirit.
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Mallon, Thomas was born on November 2, 1951 in Glen Cove, New York, United States. Son of Arthur Vincent and Caroline Mallon.
AB, Brown University, 1973. AM, Harvard University, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1978.
Assistant professor English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1979-1985, associate professor, 1985-1989, lecturer in English, 1989-1991. Literature editor Gentlemen's Quarterly, New York City, 1991-1995, writer-at-large, 1995-1999. Member National Council on Humanities, 2002—2005.
Deputy chairman National Endowment of the Humanities, Washington, 2005—2006. Professor English George Washington University, since 2007, director creative writing program, since 2010.
(From a writer whose last book, Henry and Clara, prompted ...)
(Twelve essays explore quintessentially American themes, o...)
(On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and C...)
(In this delightful, highly charged novel, Mallon re-creat...)
( A masterful retelling of a legend and famous headline o...)
( "The definitive book on the subject" of plagiarism (The...)
( Thomas Mallon's acclaimed novel vividly tells the story...)
( "Cuddles Houlihan got clipped by the vodka bottle as it...)
(It's 1950s Washington, D.C.: a world of bare-knuckled ide...)
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Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American, Phi Beta Kappa.