T D Allman

T. D. Allman (1944-2024) was a highly acclaimed American journalist, historian, and bestselling author, whose works include Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State, which was longlisted for the National Bok Award. A famed war correspondent, he exposed the CIA secret war in Laos and rescued massacre victims in Cambodia. He later was briefly kidnapped in Beirut and witnessed first-hand the events in Tiananmen Square. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Harper's, the New Republic, Rolling Stone, the London Guardian, Le Monde, and The Economist, among other publications. Harvard University's Houghton Library is the repository of the T. D. Allman archive, while the Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College also hold some of his papers. The T. D. Allman Studentships, funded by the ChengZhong Focus Foundation, support groundbreaking independent research into past and present events.