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{{short description|American writer}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Allen Drury
| image              = Ronald Reagan and Allen Drury.jpg
| caption            = [[Ronald Reagan]] visits with Drury in 1981
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1918|9|2}}
| birth_place        = [[Houston, Texas]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1998|9|2|1918|9|2}}
| death_place        = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S.
| known_for          = [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] and 20 novels
| education          = [[Stanford University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| employer           = {{Plainlist|
* ''Tulare Bee''
* ''Bakersfield Californian''
* ''Pathfinder Magazine''
* ''[[Washington Evening Star]]''
* ''[[The New York Times]]''}}
| occupation         = {{hlist|Journalist|novelist}}
| years_active       = 1943–1998
}}
'''Allen Stuart Drury''' (September 2, 1918 – September 2, 1998) was an American [[novelist]]. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Harry S. Truman]], among others. He would convert these experiences into his first novel ''[[Advise and Consent]]'', for which he won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 1960. Long afterwards, it was still being praised as ‘the definitive Washington tale’. His diaries from this period were published as ''A Senate Journal 1943–45''.

==Early life and ancestry==
Drury was born on September 2, 1918, in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], to Alden Monteith Drury (1895–1975), a citrus industry manager, real estate broker, and insurance agent, and Flora Allen (1894–1973), a legislative representative for the California Parent-Teacher Association.<ref name="NYT Obit">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/03/books/allen-drury-80-novelist-wrote-advise-and-consent.html |title=Allen Drury, 80, Novelist; Wrote ''Advise and Consent'' (Obituary)  |access-date=January 19, 2015 |last=Smith |first=Dinitia |date=September 3, 1998 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The family moved to Whittier, California, where Alden and Flora had a daughter, Anne Elizabeth (1924–1998).  Drury was a direct descendant of Hugh Drury (1616–1689)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.edmund-rice.org/era5gens/p10.htm#i153 | title=Hugh Drury in Edmund Rice 6-generation database | publisher=Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Inc. | access-date=16 April 2011 | archive-date=11 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311224615/http://edmund-rice.org/era5gens/p10.htm#i153 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and Lydia Rice (1627–1675), daughter of [[Edmund Rice (1638)|Edmund Rice]] (1594–1663), all of whom were early immigrants to [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]].<ref>Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2010. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations. (CD-ROM)</ref>

Allen Stuart Drury grew up in [[Porterville, California]], and earned his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] at [[Stanford University]], where he joined [[Alpha Kappa Lambda]],  in 1939. He told Writer's Yearbook that he was "associate editor, wrote a column, and editorials."<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|title = An Exclusive Interview with Allen Drury|last = Knoop|first = John|date = 1968|journal = Writer's Yearbook}}</ref> His last series of novels, written shortly before he died, were inspired by his experiences at Stanford. After graduating from Stanford, Drury went to work for the ''Tulare Bee'' in Porterville in 1940, where he won the [[Sigma Delta Chi Award]] for editorial writing from the [[Society of Professional Journalists]].<ref name="NYT Obit"/> He then moved to Bakersfield and wrote for the ''[[Bakersfield Californian]]'', where he "handled what they called county news."<ref name=":0" /> Drury enlisted in the U.S. Army on July 25, 1942, in [[Los Angeles]] and trained as an infantry soldier, but was discharged "because of an old back injury."<ref name=":0" /><ref>National Archives and Records Administration. U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.</ref>

==''A Senate Journal''==
{{anchor|A Senate Journal}}
[[File:SenateJournal1963.JPG|left|thumb|180px| ''A Senate Journal'' (1963)]]
In 1943, Drury moved to Washington.  "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.  I came back twenty years later, finally."<ref name=":0" />

From 1943 to 1945, Drury worked as the [[United States Senate]] correspondent for [[United Press International|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 [[United States Congress|Congress]] as well as his impressions and views of individual senators and the Senate itself. Drury's journal followed the career of [[Harry S. Truman]] from junior senator to [[President of the United States]], and also covered "President [[Franklin D. 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''.<ref name="Journal">{{cite web | url=https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Senate_Journal.htm | title=''A Senate Journal 1943–45'' by Allen Drury | publisher= U.S. Senate | access-date=April 17, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110409144544/http://senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Senate_Journal.htm| archive-date=April 9, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

After leaving United Press, he free-lanced for a year, writing a column for local papers in the West.  "This venture lasted about a year and did not succeed, as it does not for many people."<ref name=":0" />  He then moved to ''Pathfinder Magazine'', a general news magazine.  From there, he moved to the ''Washington Evening Star'', where he gained a reputation for the quality of his writing. Various pieces from this period were collected in a volume entitled ''Three Kids in a Cart''.

==''Advise and Consent'' and later works==
In 1954, [[James Reston]], the Washington bureau chief of ''[[The New York Times]]'', hired Drury. Russell Baker, hired at about the same time, recalled the circumstances in a remembrance published after Drury's death:

{{Blockquote|He had a reputation as an elegant writer when he came to the paper. Scotty Reston was then trying to persuade ''The Times'' to write plain English, and it was assumed that Allen was brought in to promote this campaign ... He tried. The results depressed him. In those days plain English was under suspicion at ''The Times''. Many stories read as if written by a Henry James imitator with a bad hangover. Incomprehensible English was accepted as evidence of the honest, if inarticulate, reporter; plain English bothered people.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/05/opinion/observer-top-of-the-mountain.html|title = Top of The Mountain |last = Baker|first = Russell|date = September 5, 1998|work =The New York Times|access-date = October 26, 2015}}</ref>}}

In his spare time, Drury wrote the novel which would become 1959's ''Advise and Consent''.<ref name="NYT Obit" /> Drury later wrote a memorandum for his archives at the [[Hoover Institution]] in which he gives a full account of how the book came to be written and published.<ref>Drury's memorandum is included in the 2014 WordFire Press edition of ''Advise and Consent''.</ref> Baker was one of the first people to read the manuscript and describes his initial reluctance and then reaction:
{{Blockquote|What lies I would be compelled to tell poor Allen ... The box weighed slightly less than a ton. The manuscript inside was typed not very well on long, legal-size paper. I took it home, ate, fixed a drink, sat down and with a heavy heart reached into the box for a fistful of manuscript. Good Lord! You couldn't put the thing down! I read half the book that night and finished it next day. My wife finished close behind, and the sight of her suppressing a tear at one point confirmed my hunch.}}

The novel uses several incidents from Drury's fifteen years in Washington as pegs for the story, about a controversial nominee for Secretary of State. Addressing the suggestion that the book was a ''[[roman à clef]]'', Drury wrote a very sharply worded preface which was only published in the new edition:
{{Blockquote|You will have to take the writer's word for it, because it is true. There are people and events in this book as in any that are ''akin'' to people and events in reality, but they ''are not'' the people and events of reality. Such resemblances as they do bear are transmuted through the observations and perceptions and understandings of the author into something far beyond and basically far different from the originals in the cases where originals can be argued to exist.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Advise and Consent|last = Drury|first = Allen|publisher = WordFire Press|year = 2014|isbn = 978-1-61475-078-9|location = Monument, CO|chapter= Original Preface}}</ref>}}

The novel spent 102 weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list.<ref name="Kemme 242">{{cite book |first=Tom |last=Kemme |title=Political Fiction, the Spirit of the Age, and Allen Drury |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalfiction00kemm |url-access=registration |publisher=Bowling Green State University Popular Press |date=1987 |page=[https://archive.org/details/politicalfiction00kemm/page/242 242]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.nytbestsellerlist.com/book/bestselling|title = New York Times All Time Best Sellers|date = 2009|access-date = October 26, 2015|work = New York Times|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151110013749/http://nytbestsellerlist.com/book/bestselling|archive-date = November 10, 2015}}</ref>  It won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 1960.  It was adapted into a well-received Broadway play by [[Loring Mandel]], who is known for a highly successful career writing for television. Otto Preminger directed an acclaimed [[Advise & Consent (film)|1962 film]] starring [[Henry Fonda]].<ref name="WSJ 2009">{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203706604574378842802585268 |title=At 50, a D.C. Novel With Legs |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |first=Scott |last=Simon |author-link=Scott Simon |date=September 2, 2009 |access-date=January 15, 2015}}</ref><ref name="HP Classic">{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-simon/classic-politics-the-work_b_5403779.html |title=Classic Politics: The Works of Allen Drury Now Back in Print |first=Phil |last=Simon |author-link=Phil Simon |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=May 28, 2014 |access-date=January 14, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Pulitzer">{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction (1948-present) |publisher=Pulitzer.org |access-date=January 14, 2015}}</ref><ref name="HP Zombie">{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-simon/zombie-detectives-and-the_b_3607008.html |title=Zombie Detectives and the Changing Face of Publishing |first=Phil |last=Simon |work=The Huffington Post |date=July 16, 2013 |access-date=January 14, 2015}}</ref> In 2009, [[Scott Simon]] of [[NPR]] wrote in ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', "Fifty years after its publication and astounding success ... Allen Drury's novel remains the definitive Washington tale."<ref name="WSJ 2009" /> When it was republished, [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] [[White House]] correspondent Jonathan Karl wrote for ''The Wall Street Journal'' that it offers "a compelling portrait of American social and political history and even today is well worth reading."<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304677904579533703686397052|title = Book Review: Allen Drury|last = Karl|first = Jonathan|date = May 23, 2014|work = The Wall Street Journal|access-date = October 26, 2015}}</ref>

With the success of ''Advise and Consent'', Drury left ''The New York Times.''  He became a political correspondent for ''[[Reader's Digest]]'', but wrote very little for it.  From then on, his only major publications were his books. He followed ''Advise and Consent'' with several sequels. ''[[A Shade of Difference]]'' (1962) is set a year after ''Advise and Consent,'' and uses the United Nations as a backdrop for portraying racial tensions in the American South and in Africa.  Drury then turned his attention to the next presidential election after those events with ''[[Capable of Honor]]'' (1966) and ''[[Preserve and Protect]]'' (1968). ''Preserve and Protect'' had a cliffhanger ending—an assassination in which the victim is not identified.&nbsp; He then wrote two alternative finales based on two different outcomes of the assassination: ''[[Come Nineveh, Come Tyre]]'' (1973) and ''[[The Promise of Joy]]'' (1975).<ref name="NYT Obit" /> The last two books are set in the middle of a full international crisis.

In 1971, Drury published ''[[The Throne of Saturn (novel)|The Throne of Saturn]]'', a political/[[science fiction]] novel about the first attempt at sending a crewed mission to [[Mars]] in competition with a similar [[Soviet]] effort.<ref name="LS">{{cite journal|last=Jacoby|first=Alfred|title=Mixing power politics and a planetary trip|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/massachusetts/lowell/lowell-sun/1971/02-21/page-66|journal=[[The Lowell Sun]]|date=February 21, 1971|access-date=January 22, 2015}}</ref> With the [[historical novel]] ''[[A God Against the Gods]]'' (1976) and its sequel ''[[Return to Thebes]]'', Drury explored the reign and fall of [[Pharaoh]] [[Akhenaten]] of [[ancient Egypt]].<ref name="Adamson">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DX30otY9RZ8C&q=drury+gods+doubleday&pg=PA489 |title=World Historical Fiction: An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Young |first=Lynda G. |last=Adamson |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood Publishing]] |date=October 21, 1998 |page=3 |isbn=1-573-56066-9}}</ref><ref name="Who's Who">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&q=Allen+Drury+455 |title=Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |editor1-last=Brennan |editor1-first=Elizabeth A. |editor2-last=Clarage |editor2-first=Elizabeth C. |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]]|date=December 17, 1998 |isbn=1-573-56111-8 |pages=229–230}}</ref><ref name="OAC Biblio">{{cite web|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=drury-allen-cr.xml |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150121004115/http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=drury-allen-cr.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 21, 2015 |title=Drury, Allen (1918 September 2 - 1998 September 2): Biographical History |publisher=[[Online Archive of California]] |access-date=January 20, 2015 }}</ref> The novels are based on extensive reading about the [[Amarna Period]] and, in the introduction to ''A God Against the Gods'', he thanks at length the greatest Egyptologist of the time, [[Cyril Aldred]], for his guidance on research. He disagreed with Aldred's view that Akhenaten's religious innovations were accepted by the supplanted religious authorities. Drury wrote, "I am afraid my own view, conditioned by some years as a political correspondent, is much more cynical concerning the lengths to which human beings, of whatever era, will go in order to get, and keep, power."<ref>{{Cite book|title = A God Against the Gods|last = Drury|first = Allen|publisher = WordFire Press|year = 2015|isbn = 978-1-61475-281-3|location = Monument, CO|pages = ix}}</ref>

After the Egypt novels, Drury returned to Washington in a succession of novels that were only tenuously related. ''[[Anna Hastings]]'' (1977) is more a novel about journalism than politics.<ref name="WSJ 2009" /><ref name="Victoria Advocate">{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19770807&id=-C4PAAAAIBAJ&pg=3338,1304165 |title=Drury Returns to Washington |first=John |last=Barkham |work=[[The Victoria Advocate]] |date=August 7, 1977 |access-date=January 15, 2015}}</ref> He returned to the Senate in 1979 with ''[[Mark Coffin, U.S.S.]]'', which was followed by the two-part ''[[The Hill of Summer]]'' (1981) and ''[[The Roads of Earth]]'' (1984), though the four books are not a series. Drury also wrote stand-alone novels, ''[[Decision (novel)|Decision]]'' (1983) about [[Supreme Court of the United States|the Supreme Court]],<ref name="HP Classic" /><ref name="WSJ A+C" /> and ''[[Pentagon (novel)|Pentagon]]<ref name="PW Pentagon">{{cite web |url=http://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/416674/Reviews |title=''Pentagon'' (1986) by Allen Drury |work=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=January 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121043119/http://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/416674/Reviews |archive-date=January 21, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="WM Pentagon">{{cite web |last=Henderson |first=Diane D. |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pentagon.-a04589391 |title=''Pentagon'' by Allen Drury |work=[[The Washington Monthly]] |date=December 1986 |access-date=January 21, 2015}}</ref>'' (1986) and ''[[A Thing of State]]<ref name="PW ToS">{{cite web |work=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=January 17, 2015 |title=Fiction Book Review: ''A Thing of State'' by Allen Drury |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-684-80702-7}}</ref><ref name="Kirkus ToS">{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/allen-drury/a-thing-of-state/ |title=''A Thing of State'' by Allen Drury |work=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |access-date=January 20, 2015}}</ref>'' (1995) about the State Department. His career ended with the trilogy of books following the lives of fictional members of his Stanford graduating class: ''[[Toward What Bright Glory?]]'' (1994), ''[[Into What Far Harbor?]]''(1997), and ''[[Public Men]]'' (1998). John J. Miller wrote that readers are "able to mark through Washington's major institutions with Drury and his novels ... Television producers who want to develop a show to compete with [[Netflix]]'s ''[[House of Cards (U.S. TV series)|House of Cards]]'' would do well to look to Drury."<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|url = https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/396895/great-washington-novel|title = Rediscovering Allen Drury's Advise and Consent|last = Miller|first = John J.|date = February 9, 2015|journal = National Review|access-date = October 26, 2015}}</ref>

''Advise and Consent'' was [[out-of-print book|out of print]] for almost 15 years and it ranked #27 on the 2013 [[BookFinder.com]] list of the Top 100 Most Searched for Out of Print Books before [[WordFire Press]] reissued it in [[paperback]] and [[e-book]] format in February 2014.<ref name="HP Classic"/><ref name="HP Zombie"/><ref name="WSJ A+C">{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304677904579533703686397052 |title=Book Review: Allen Drury |work=The Wall Street Journal |first=Jonathan |last=Karl |author-link=Jonathan Karl |date=May 23, 2014 |access-date=January 21, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Bookbinder 100 2013">{{cite web |url=http://www.bookfinder.com/books/bookfinder_report/BookFinder_Report_2013.mhtml |title=11th Annual BookFinder.com Report: Out-of-print and in demand |publisher=[[BookFinder.com]] |date=2013 |access-date=January 14, 2015}}</ref> The WordFire edition includes never-before-published essays about the book written by Drury himself, new appendices, and remembrances by Drury's heirs and literary executors Kenneth and Kevin Killiany. WordFire also released ''Advise and Consent''{{'s}} five sequels, and other novels.<ref name="HP Classic"/><ref name="WSJ A+C"/>  WordFire is projected to ultimately bring out about 20 of Drury's novels.<ref name=":1" />

==Personal life and death==
Drury, whose "passions were reading and travel…was an intensely private man, who never married, and lived quietly."<ref name="NYT Obit"/> In one of the [[Nixon White House tapes|White House audiotapes]], [[Richard Nixon]] in conversation with [[H.R. Haldeman]] and [[John Ehrlichman]] stated, "Allen Drury is a homosexual."<ref>Kirchick, James. ''Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington'', New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2022, p. 401, quoting Conversation No. 498-5, May 13, 1971, Nixon Library.</ref>

Drury lived in [[Tiburon, California]], from 1964 until his death. He completed his 20th novel, ''[[Public Men]]'', just two weeks before his death. He died of [[cardiac arrest]] on September 2, 1998, his 80th birthday, at [[St. Mary's Medical Center (San Francisco)|St. Mary's Medical Center]] in [[San Francisco]], [[California]].<ref name="NYT Obit"/>

==Awards and honors==
*1960 - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 
*1967 - Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]]<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Novels===

====''Advise and Consent'' series====
* ''[[Advise and Consent]]'' (1959)
* ''[[A Shade of Difference]]'' (1962)
* ''[[Capable of Honor]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Preserve and Protect]]'' (1968)
* ''[[Come Nineveh, Come Tyre]]'' (1973)
* ''[[The Promise of Joy]]'' (1975)
'''Romance'''
* ''[[That Summer (Drury novel)|That Summer]]'' (1963)

====Space program====
* ''[[The Throne of Saturn (novel)|The Throne of Saturn]]'' (1971)<ref>The Doubleday first edition of ''The Throne of Saturn'' was printed December 1970 per gutter code 'L50' on page 588, and published in early 1971, so its copyright page states copyright '1970, 1971'.</ref>

====Ancient Egypt====
* ''[[A God Against the Gods]]'' (1976)
* ''[[Return to Thebes]]'' (1977)

====Other political novels====
* ''[[Anna Hastings]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Mark Coffin, U.S.S.]]'' (1979)
* ''[[The Hill of Summer]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Decision (novel)|Decision]]'' (1983)
* ''[[The Roads of Earth]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Pentagon (novel)|Pentagon]]'' (1986)
* ''[[A Thing of State]]'' (1995)

====''University'' series====
* ''[[Toward What Bright Glory?]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Into What Far Harbor?]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Public Men]]'' (1998)

===Short stories===
* "[https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v019n04_1960-10_PDF/page/n21/mode/2up?view=theater Something]" (''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]'', October 1960)

===Non-fiction===
* ''[[A Senate Journal]]'' (1963)
* ''Three Kids in a Cart'' (1965)
* ''[[A Very Strange Society]]'' (1967)
* ''[[Courage and Hesitation]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Egypt: The Eternal Smile]]'' (1980)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7d5nc180/ The Allen Drury papers] at the [http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Hoover Institution Archives].
* {{cite news |first=Ken |last=Ringle |title=Allen Drury, Father Of the D.C. Drama |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/links/drury2.htm |date=September 4, 1998 |access-date=February 13, 2013}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.policyreview.org/oct99/kaplan.html |title=Allen Drury and the Washington Novel (Obituary) |access-date=January 21, 2015 |author=Kaplan, Roger |date=October–November 1999 |work=[[Policy Review]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925184355/http://www.policyreview.org/oct99/kaplan.html |archive-date=September 25, 2006}}
* {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&q=Allen+Drury+455 |title=Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |editor1-last=Brennan |editor1-first=Elizabeth A. |editor2-last=Clarage |editor2-first=Elizabeth C. |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]]|date=December 17, 1998 |isbn=1-573-56111-8 |pages=229–230}}
* {{cite web|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=drury-allen-cr.xml |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150121004115/http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=drury-allen-cr.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 21, 2015 |title=Drury, Allen (1918 September 2 - 1998 September 2): Biographical History |publisher=[[Online Archive of California]] |access-date=January 20, 2015 }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/010/024bzbfi.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102124236/http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/010/024bzbfi.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 2, 2010 |title=Allen Drury, 1918-1998: Remembering ''Advise and Consent'' |first=Kenneth Y. |last=Tomlinson |volume=4 |issue=2 |work=[[The Weekly Standard]] |date=September 21, 1998 |access-date=January 30, 2015}}
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/allen-drury/ List of Allen Drury works - FantasticFiction.co.uk]
* {{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/allen-drury-3/three-kids-in-a-cart-a-visit-to-ike-and-other-d/ |title=''Three Kids in a Cart'' by Allen Drury |work=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |access-date=January 30, 2015}}

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