Thomas Mallon is the author of 11 novels, including HENRY AND CLARA, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, FELLOW TRAVELERS, WATERGATE and LANDFALL. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and other publications. In 2011, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style. He has been the literary editor of GQ and the deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Books by Thomas Mallon

Henry and Clara

by Thomas Mallon

Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris were engaged to be married, when they were invited to share the Presidential box with the Lincolns at Ford's Theater on the evening of Good Friday, 1865. When John Wilkes Booth crept into the box, the young couple became witnesses to a central tragedy in American history.