Allen Drury

Writer

Date of birth : 09/02/1918

Date of death : 09/02/1998

City of birth : Houston, Texas, USA

A former reporter in The New York Times's Washington bureau, Drury quit the paper when his novel of political intrigue, Advise & Consent, became a bestseller. It won a 1960 Pulitzer Prize, became a Broadway play and was basis for Otto Preminger's Advise & Consent (1962). He completed his final work, the novel "Public Men," two weeks before he died.