Henry Allen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1941 (age 82–83) Summit, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Education | Hamilton College, Montgomery College |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Critic, Artist, Poet |
| Years active | 1970-present |
| Notable credit | The Washington Post (1970–2009) |
| Spouse | Deborah[1] |
| Awards | American Academy of Poets prize[1] Pulitzer Prize, 2000[1] |
| Website | henryallenstudio |
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 Books 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) ISBN 978-0395320396 — thriller novel
- Going Too Far Enough: American Culture at Century's End (Smithsonian, 1994) ISBN 978-1560983675— 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) ISBN 978-0375420634
- Where We Lived: Essays on Places (Mandel Vilar Press, 2017) ISBN 978-1942134442
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Criticism". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- 1 2 3 "Henry Allen". Henry Allen Studio. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 Taghizadeh, Tara (20 June 2012). "A Conversation With Henry Allen: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Artist, Renaissance Man". High Brown Magazine. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 Wemple, Erik. "Allen v. Roig-Franzia: From the Beginning," Washington City Paper (November 2, 2009).
- ↑ 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," Archived 2013-09-22 at the Wayback Machine Knight Foundation website (Sep 28, 2002).
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