Allen Drury is a master of political fiction, #1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer
Prize winner, best known for the landmark novel ADVISE AND CONSENT. A 1939
graduate of Stanford University, Allen Drury wrote for and became editor of two local
California newspapers. While visiting Washington, DC, in 1943 he was hired by the
United Press (UPI) and covered the Senate during the latter half of World War II. After
the war he wrote for other prominent publications before joining the New York Times'
Washington Bureau, where he worked through most of the 1950s. After the success of
ADVISE AND CONSENT, he left journalism to write full time. He published twenty
novels and five works of non-fiction, many of them best sellers. WordFire Press will be
reissuing the majority of his works.