THOMAS MALLON is the author of 11 novels, including Henry and Clara: A Novel, Dewey Defeats Truman: A Novel, Fellow Travelers: A Novel, Watergate: A Novel, Landfall: A Novel, and Up With the Sun. 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. Mallon has been the literary editor of GQ and the deputy chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in Washington, D.C.