Allen Stuart Drury was a U.S. novelist. He wrote the 1959 novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. Born on 2 September 1918 in Houston, Texas, to Alden Monteith Drury , a real estate broker and insurance agent, and Flora Allen , a legislative representative for the California Parent-Teacher Association. Drury was a direct descendant of Hugh Drury and Lydia Rice , daughter of Edmund Rice , all of whom were early immigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony. Allen Stuart Drury grew up in Porterville, California and earned his B.A. at Stanford University in... 1939. In the 1990s, he would write three novels inspired by his experiences at Stanford: Toward What Bright Glory?, Into What Far Harbor?, and Public Men. After graduating from Stanford, Drury went to work for the Tulare Bee in Porterville, where he won a Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. Drury enlisted in the U.S. Army on 25 Jul 1942 in Los Angeles and trained as an infantry soldier.
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