![]() From there, he moved to the Washington Evening Star, where he gained a reputation for the quality of his writing. “This venture lasted about a year and did not succeed, as it does not for many people.” He then moved to Pathfinder Magazine, a general news magazine. Īfter leaving United Press, he free-lanced for a year, writing a column for local papers in the West. Roosevelt and his contentious relations with the Senate.” The journal was published in 1963 as A Senate Journal 1943-45 after Drury had experienced great success with his 1959 novel Advise and Consent. Truman from junior senator to President of the United States, and also covered “President Franklin D. Drury’s journal followed the career of Harry S. ![]() I came back twenty years later, finally.” įrom 1943-45, Drury worked as the United States Senate correspondent for United Press which, as he wrote, gave him the opportunity “to be of some slight assistance in making my fellow countrymen better acquainted with their Congress and particularly their Senate.” He worked as a reporter, but also kept a journal in which he recorded the events of Congress as well as his impressions and views of individual senators and the Senate itself. ![]() “I went East and wound up in Washington, which fascinated me, and I thought I would get a job for about a year for experience before coming back to the coast. He wrote the 1959 novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. Allen Stuart Drury was an American novelist. ![]()
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