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Henry Allen | |
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Born | 1941 (age 82–83)
Summit, New Jersey, U.S. |
Education |
Hamilton College Montgomery College |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, Critic, Artist, Poet |
Years active | 1970-present |
Notable credit | The Washington Post (1970–2009) |
Spouse | Deborah [1] |
Awards |
American Academy of Poets prize
[1] Pulitzer Prize, 2000 [1] |
Website |
henryallenstudio |
Henry Southworth Allen (born 1941 in Summit, New Jersey) [1] is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, journalist, poet, and artist. [2]
Allen obtained his degree in English and art at Hamilton College [1] and Montgomery College. [2]
Allen began his painting and drawing in the late 1960s. [3]
He was a stationed in Vietnam in the mid-1960s [4] as a U.S. Marine. [1]
Allen was a critic for The New York Review of Books[ citation needed] and worked on staff for the New Haven Register. [4] As a staff writer for the Style section, he worked at The Washington Post for 39 years. [3] In 1975, he was awarded a NEH Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan. [5] [1] He left The Washington Post in 2009 after an altercation with a fellow staffer (although he had already announced his resignation and was planning on leaving a few weeks later). [3] [4]
Allen then began teaching courses in cultural analysis in the University of Maryland honors program. [1]
Allen had solo shows in June 2009 at Strathmore Hall and in August 2012 at the Chebeague Island Library. [2]
Allen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2000 for his writings in The Washington Post on photography. [1]
He appeared on the Colbert Report, February 2, 2010.