Henry Southworth Allen (born 1941 in Summit, New Jersey)[1] is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, journalist, poet, and artist.[2]
Allen obtained his degree in English and art at Hamilton College[1] and Montgomery College.[2]
Allen began his painting and drawing in the late 1960s.[3]
He was a stationed in Vietnam in the mid-1960s[4] as a U.S. Marine.[1]
Allen was a critic for The New York Review of Books and worked on staff for the New Haven Register.[4][5] As a staff writer for the Style section, he worked at The Washington Post for 39 years.[3] In 1975, he was awarded a NEH Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan.[6][1] He left The Washington Post in 2009 after an altercation with a fellow staffer (although he had already announced his resignation and was planning on leaving a few weeks later).[3][4]
Allen then began teaching courses in cultural analysis in the University of Maryland honors program.[1]
Allen had solo shows in June 2009 at the Mansion at Strathmore (Maryland) and in August 2012 at the Chebeague Island Library.[2]
Allen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2000 for his writings in The Washington Post on photography.[1]
He appeared on the Colbert Report, February 2, 2010.[citation needed]
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