Allen Drury

Allen Stuart Drury was an American novelist. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, among others. He would convert these experiences into his first novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. Long afterwards, it was still being praised as ‘the definitive Washington tale’. His diaries from this period were published as A Senate Journal 1943–45.

2 September 1918

Born on the same birth day (2 September): Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria • Austin Abrams • Charles Vintcent • Deimantas Petravičius • Donald Watson • Jimmy Clanton • John Zorn • Károly Krajczár • Lance Macklin • Liliʻuokalani • Lucretia Peabody Hale • Marcus Morris Sr. • Markieff Morris • Nicholas Pinnock

Born in the same month (September 1918): Arnold Stang • Cachao • Chaim Herzog • Dick Haymes • Fred McCarthy (cartoonist) • Georges Berger • Gerald Wilson • Helen Wagner • John Gofman • Pablita Velarde • Ángel Labruna