Fellow Travelers

“Sharp-eyed … Some of the most lucid prose in contemporary American literature…. [Mallon’s] best book yet.”—Los Angeles Times“Mallon writes crisp, buoyant prose, and he has a perfect ear for his period.”—The New York Times Book Review “Exuberant…. Brisk and seductive.”—The Washington Post Book World“Brilliant…. This is Mallon’s best historical novel, period, and better than most contemporary novels of any stripe.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

THOMAS MALLON is the author of eleven novels, including Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, Fellow Travelers, Watergate, and Landfall. 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.