Thomas Mallon

Thomas Mallon is the author of eleven novels, including Henry and Clara, Fellow Travelers and Up with the Sun. His nonfiction books include Mrs. Paine’s Garage and, most recently, The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994, which Kirkus Reviews called “Funny, sad, witty, horrible, and beautiful … An exquisitely evocative glimpse into an unparalleled era in queer history steeped in joy, sex, and death.” He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. In 2011 he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style. He has been the literary editor of GQ and the deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in Washington, D.C.