Pulitzer Prize-winner Henry Allen ’63, a former culture critic for The Washington Post, will present a lecture about his career, the field of journalism, and the art of writing at Hamilton on Monday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Allen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2000 for his writings on photography in The Washington Post. A writer and culture critic at the Post for 39 years, he also won the American Society of Newspaper Editors prize for distinguished commentary. Allen has been Graham Hovey Lecturer at the University of Michigan and taught an honors course in culture and meaning at the University of Maryland.
He covered the White House and Capitol Hill for the New York News, and joined the Washington Post’s Style section in 1970. Allen was a National Endowment fellow at the University of Michigan in 1975-76.
He is author of a novel, Fool’s Mercy, a collection of essays, Going Too Far Enough, a poetry chapbook, The Museum of Lost Air, and a hardcover version of his Washington Post series on living in the American century, What It Felt Like – Living in the American Century (2000).
Allen is also an artist (painter) and continues to contribute to publications including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Allen’s lecture is sponsored by The Spectator Journalism Lecture Series.
