Henry Allen Bio, Age, Net Worth, Books, Wife, Spouse, Education, Career

Henry Allen Biography

Henry Allen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American critic, journalist, poet, and artist. Allen began drawing and painting in the late 1960s.

Henry Allen Age

He was born in 1941, in Summit, New Jersey, United States of America.  Allen is 82 years old as of 2023.

Henry Allen Education

Allen attended Hamilton College and Montgomery College, where he majored in English and painting.

Henry Allen Wife- Spouse

Henry is happily married to his wife Deborah.

Henry Allen
Henry Allen

Henry Allen Career

Allen began drawing and painting in the late 1960s. He was a US Marine stationed in Vietnam in the mid-1960s. Allen worked as a critic for The New York Review of Books and as a staff writer for the New Haven Register. He worked for The Washington Post for 39 years as a Style section staff writer. He was given an NEH Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan in 1975. He resigned from The Washington Post in 2009 after an argument with a fellow employee (though he had already announced his departure and planned to leave a few weeks later). Allen then began teaching cultural analysis classes in the University of Maryland’s honors program. Allen had solo shows in June 2009 at Strathmore Hall and in August 2012 at the Chebeague Island Library. Allen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2000 for his writings in The Washington Post on photography. He appeared on the Colbert Report, February 2, 2010.

Henry Allen Books

  • Fool’s Mercy
  • Going Too Far Enough
  • The Museum of Lost Air
  • What It Felt Like
  • Where We Lived

Allen Net Worth

Allen has an estimated net worth of 800 thousand dollars.