Henry Allen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and feature writer and editor for the Washington Post, will speak at Hamilton College on Wednesday, April 11, at 7 p.m. in the Bristol Campus Center's Dwight Lounge. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by The Spectator, Hamilton's weekly student newspaper, and the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, and focuses on his latest book, What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century.
Henry Allen, a 1963 graduate of Hamilton College, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2000. Allen's previous books include a novel, Fool's Mercy, and a collection of essays, Going Too Far Enough. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the Paris Review and Vogue.
