Allen Drury

Allen Drury
Ronald Reagan visits with Drury in 1981
Born	(1918-09-02)September 2, 1918 Houston, Texas, U.S.
Died	September 2, 1998(1998-09-02) (aged 80) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Education	Stanford University (BA)
Occupations	Journalist novelist
Years active	1943–1998
Employers	Tulare Bee Bakersfield Californian Pathfinder Magazine Washington Evening Star The New York Times
Known for	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and 20 novels

Allen Stuart Drury (September 2, 1918 – September 2, 1998) was an American novelist. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, among others. He would convert these experiences into his first novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. Long afterwards, it was still being praised as ‘the definitive Washington tale’. His diaries from this period were published as A Senate Journal 1943–45.