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Thomas Mallon (born November 2, 1951) is an American novelist, essayist, and critic. His novels are renowned for their attention to historical detail and context and for the author’s crisp wit and interest in the “bystanders” to larger historical events. He is the author of nine books of fiction, including ''Henry and Clara'', ''Two Moons'', ''Dewey Defeats Truman'', ''Aurora 7'', ''Bandbox'', ''Fellow Travelers'', ''Watergate'', and most recently ''Finale''. He has also published nonfiction on plagiarism (''Stolen Words''), diaries (''A Book of One’s Own''), letters (''Yours Ever'') and the Kennedy assassination (''Mrs. Paine’s Garage''), as well as two volumes of essays (''Rockets and Rodeos'' and ''In Fact''). He is a former literary editor of ''Gentleman’s Quarterly'', where he wrote the "Doubting Thomas" column in the 1990s, and has contributed frequently to ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''The American Scholar'', and other periodicals. He was appointed a member of the National Council on the Humanities in 2002 and served as Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2005-2006. His honors include Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, the National Book Critics Circle citation for reviewing, and the (Vursell prize ) of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinguished prose style. He was elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.〔"Thomas Mallon Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences." GW Today (April 19, 2012) Retrieved 2012-06-08〕 ==Early life and education== Thomas Vincent Mallon was born in Glen Cove, New York and grew up in Stewart Manor, N.Y., on Long Island. His father, Arthur Mallon, was a salesman and his mother, Caroline, kept the home. Mallon graduated from Sewanhaka High School in 1969. He has often said that he had “the kind of happy childhood that is so damaging to a writer.”〔Michael McGregor, “Thomas Mallon,” Twenty-First-Century American Novelists, ''Dictionary of Literary Biography'', vol. 350. Gale Cengage Learning.〕 Mallon went on to study English at Brown University, where he wrote his undergraduate honors thesis on American author Mary McCarthy. He credits McCarthy, with whom he later became friends, as the most enduring influence on his career as a writer.〔André Bernard, “An Interview with Thomas Mallon,” ''Five Points'', vol. XIII (January 2009): 97-114.〕 Mallon earned a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he wrote his dissertation on the English WWI poet Edmund Blunden. On sabbatical from Vassar College in 1982-1983, Mallon spent a year as a visiting scholar at St. Edmund’s House (later College) at Cambridge University. It was here that he drafted most of ''A Book of One’s Own'', a work of nonfiction about diarists and diary-writing. The book’s rather unexpected success earned Mallon tenure at Vassar College, where he taught English from 1979-1991. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Mallon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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