Thomas Mallon

• Nov-1984
• / Literary
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• May-1992
• / General Fiction
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Young space enthusiast Gregory Noonan skips school to watch Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7 voyage on T.V. in Grand Central Station, crossing paths with an acerbic novelist and a confused priest before his destiny gradually becomes clear...

• Aug-1995
• / General Fiction
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On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris joined the Lincolns in the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater, becoming eyewitnesses to one of the great tragedies of American history. In this riveting novel, Thomas Mallon ...

• Jan-1997
• / General Fiction
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From a writer whose last book, Henry and Clara, prompted John Updike to declare Thomas Mallon one of the most interesting American novelists at work, comes a story that perfectly captures the delightful romance and wistful magic of our recent, and mo...

• Feb-2000
• / General Fiction
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Astronomy, politics, and romance join forces in this novel from the writer John Updike has called "one of the most interesting American novelists at work."        It's the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., an...

• Jan-2004
• / General Fiction
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From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to g...

• May-2007
• / General Fiction
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From the highly acclaimed author of Bandbox and Dewey Defeats Truman -- a searing new historical novel about the competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the McCarthy era. Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s: a world of bare-knuckled ...

• Mar-2012
• / Historical
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From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators. For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated -- u...

• Sep-2015
• / Historical
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Before there was Reagan the conservative icon, there was Reagan the president: genial, unknowable, faced with doubters, scandals, and the final throes of the Cold War. In this extraordinary novel, Thomas Mallon takes us to the tense, high-stakes mont...

• Feb-2019
• / Historical
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From "a master of the historical novel" (Newsweek), whose fiction "unfolds with the urgency of a thriller" (The New Yorker), the tumultuous--at once witty and sad--chronicle of George W. Bush's second term, as his aspirations toward greatness are thr...

• Feb-2023
• / General Fiction
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A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Through the curious life of Dick Kallman -- a real-life celebrity striver, poisonously charming actor, and eventual murder victim -- the unforgiving worlds of postwar showbiz and down-low gay sexuality...