Drury, Allen

Chronology

• 1918 September 2: Born, Houston, Texas
• 1939: B.A., Stanford University
• 1940 - 1941 : Editor, Tulare Bee, awarded national Sigma Delta Chi Editorial Award for writings in this publication
• 1941 - 1943 : Editor, The Bakersfield Californian
• 1942 - 1943 : Served in the United States Army
• 1943 - 1946 : United States Senate staff of United Press
• 1954 - 1959 : Washington reporter, New York Times
• 1959: Author, Advise and Consent
• 1960: Awarded Pulitzer Prize
• 1961: Author, Education for Politics
• 1962: Author, A Shade of Difference
• 1963: Author, A Senate Journal, 1943-1945
• 1965: Author, That Summer
• 1966: Author, Capable of Honor
• 1967: Author, A Very Strange Society
• 1968: Author, Preserve and Protect
• 1971: Author, Courage and Hesitation, Author, The Throne of Saturn
• 1973: Author, Come Nineveh, Come Tyre
• 1975: Author, The Promise of Joy
• 1976: Author, A God Against the Gods
• 1980: Author, Egypt: The Eternal Smile
• 1981: Author, The Hill of Summer
• 1982: Appointed to the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities
• 1983: Author, Decision
• 1984: Author, The Roads of Earth
• 1986: Author, Pentagon
• 1990: Author, Toward What Bright Glory?
• 1993: Author, Into What Far Harbor?
• 1995: Author, A Thing of State
• 1998: Author, Public Men
• 1998 September 2: Died, Marin County, California

From the guide to the Allen Drury papers, 1890-1995, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)