Henry and Clara
by Thomas Mallon
List Price: $14.00
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0312135084
Publisher: Picador
Thomas Mallon was born November 2, 1951, and grew up in Stewart Manor, New York. He attended Brown University as an undergraduate, and earned a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from Harvard. His writing has been recognized by numerous awards. In 1994 he received the Ingram Merrill Award for outstanding work as a writer, and his essay "Rodeo" was included in The Best American Sportswriting 1992. He also won a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1986. His essays and reviews have appeared in GQ, Harper's, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, The Yale Review Architectural Digest, The New York Times Book Review, and The Washington Post Book World. After several years at Vassar College as an English professor, Mr. Mallon was Literary Editor for Gentlemen's Quarterly. He has lived in Texas and in England for a year as visiting scholar at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University. He currently resides in Westport, Connecticut. He is also the author of the novels Dewey Defeats Truman, Aurora 7 and Arts and Sciences, as well as Rockets and Rodeos, Stolen Words: Forays Into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism, and A Book of One's Own: People and Their Dairies.
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A few words with Thomas Mallon about the idea for this book
"About seven years ago I thought about doing a biography of John Wilkes Booth. As I did some preliminary reading, I discovered that a book about the Booth family was in the works, and that dissuaded me. But as I did that reading I kept coming across mentions of the Rathbones -- often no more than a footnote -- and I realized that I was onto something extraordinary."
About writing
"I still write in longhand. Eventually the draft goes into and gets revised on a computer, but I've handwritten all eight of my books' first drafts. I still think penmanship has its physical pleasures and that writing by hand slows down and improves the thought process."
About historical fiction
"I think the main thing that has led me to write historical fiction is that it is such a relief from the self. It is like getting out of the house: there are times when it is absolutely necessary, and I think I would go mad if I tried to make fiction straight out of my own life."
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