not a series. Drury also wrote stand-alone novels, Decision (1983) about the Supreme Court, and Pentagon (1986) and A Thing of State (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 would do well to look to Drury." Advise and Consent was 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. 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 five sequels, and other novels. WordFire is projected to ultimately bring out about 20 of Drury's novels. Personal life and death Drury, whose "passions were reading and travel…was an intensely private man, who never married, and lived quietly." He 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 in San Francisco, California. Awards and honors 1960 - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1967 - Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 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 (1963) Space program The Throne of Saturn (1971) 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 (1983) The Roads of Earth (1984) Pentagon (1986) A Thing of State (1995) University series Toward What Bright Glory? (1990) Into What Far Harbor? (1993) Public Men (1998) Non-fiction A Senate Journal (1963) Three Kids in a Cart (1965) A Very Strange Society (1967) Courage and Hesitation (1972)