Henry Allen (journalist)

For other people named Henry Allen, see Henry Allen (disambiguation).

Henry Allen
Born	1941 (age 83–84) 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.blogspot.com

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] [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

He appeared on the Colbert Report , February 2, 2010.^{[ citation needed ]}

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. "The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Criticism". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
2. "Henry Allen". Henry Allen Studio. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
3. Taghizadeh, Tara (20 June 2012). "A Conversation With Henry Allen: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Artist, Renaissance Man". High Brown Magazine. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
4. Wemple, Erik. "Allen v. Roig-Franzia: From the Beginning," Washington City Paper (November 2, 2009).
5. "What It Felt Like, by Henry Allen". www.mitchellspublications.com. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
6. 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).

External links

• Official website