On Tuesday, March 17 author Thomas Mallon will visit Davidson to deliver a public reading of his works. Mallon is the author of six novels, including “Fellow Travelers,” “Henry and Clara” and “Bandbox.”
Mallon is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. He has been a regular contributor to “The New Yorker,” “Atlantic Monthly” and “Harpers,” and is the author of several non-fiction books: “Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism;” “Mrs. Paine’s Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy;” “Rockets and Rodeos and other American Spectacles;” ”A Book of One’s Own: People and their Diaries;” “Edmund Blunden” and “Yours Ever: People and their Letters.”
“Yours Ever,” which was published in 2009 by Pantheon Books, discusses the tropes and concerns of personal letters by debriefing the correspondences of famous characters from Colette to Thomas Jefferson.
Mallon discusses his findings in nine typical epistolary categories, including “Absence,” “Advice,” “Confession” and “Prison.” Mallon’s conclusions are largely drawn from letters that have already been published in collections from a particular author or era. The collection includes discussions of letters by Vladimir Nabokov, Lord Byron and Abraham Lincoln.
Mallon is the recipient of both an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award and a Rockefeller Fellowship. He has taught at Vassar College and George Washington University. Mallon has served on the National Council on the Humanities and as the Deputy Chairman and the Director of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The lecture will take place in Tyler-Tallman Hall at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Mallon to read from his works
Published: Friday, February 26, 2010
Updated: Friday, February 26, 2010
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