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Allen Drury(1918-1998)

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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.
BornSeptember 2, 1918
DiedSeptember 2, 1998(80)
BornSeptember 2, 1918
DiedSeptember 2, 1998(80)
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Advise & Consent
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    Advise & Consent (1962)
    Advise & Consent
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    Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie in Today (1952)
    Today
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    TV Series
    • Self
    Merv Griffin in The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
    The Merv Griffin Show
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    • Self

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    • Advise & Consent (1962)
      Advise & Consent
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      • September 2, 1918
      • Houston, Texas, USA
    • Died
      • September 2, 1998
      • Tiburon, California, USA(heart failure)
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      Washington correspondent for the New York Times.

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      Newspaper correspondent who became fulltime novelist. His first novel, "Advise and Consent," won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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