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Allen Stuart Drury grew up in Porterville, California and earned his B. A.

at Stanford University in 1939.

In the 1990s, he wrote three novels inspired by his experiences at Stanford: Toward What Bright Glory ?, Into What Far Harbor ?, and Public Men.

After graduating from Stanford, Drury went to work for the Tulare Bee in Porterville, where he won a Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial writing from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Drury enlisted in the U. S. Army on 25 Jul 1942 in Los Angeles and trained as an infantry soldier.