The Throne of Saturn: A Novel of Space and Politics - Paperback

Drury, Allen: - Allen Drury is a master of political fiction, #1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner, best known for the landmark novel Advise and Consent. A 1939 graduate of Stanford University, Allen Drury wrote for and became editor of two local California newspapers. While visiting Washington, DC, in 1943 he was hired by the United Press (UPI) and covered the Senate during the latter half of World War II. A Senate Journal, his third book published, is a non-fiction chronicle of those years. After the war Drury wrote for other prominent publications before joining the New York Times' Washington Bureau, where he worked through most of the 1950s. After the success of Advise and Consent, he left journalism to write full time. He published twenty novels and five works of non-fiction, many of them best sellers. Drury died in 1998. WordFire Press is reissuing the majority of his works.