Henry Allen (journalist)
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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 Books and worked on staff for the New Haven Register.[4][5] 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.[6][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 the Mansion at Strathmore (Maryland) 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
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Bibliography
- Fool's Mercy (Houghton Mifflin, 1984) Template:ISBN — thriller novel
- Going Too Far Enough: American Culture at Century's End (Smithsonian, 1994) Template: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) Template:ISBN
- Where We Lived: Essays on Places (Mandel Vilar Press, 2017) Template:ISBN
References
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- ↑ a b c Wemple, Erik. "Allen v. Roig-Franzia: From the Beginning," Washington City Paper (November 2, 2009).
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- ↑ Press release. "$5 Million from Knight Foundation and $1 Million from Mike Wallace Launch New Era for Journalism Fellows at the University of Michigan Program Renamed The Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan," Template:Webarchive Knight Foundation website (Sep 28, 2002).
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External links
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