Allen French

Historian and author
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroHistorian and author
PlacesUnited States of America
isWriter Children's writer
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
Birth28 November 1870
The details

Biography

Allen French (28 November 1870 – 1946) was a historian and children's book author who did major research on the battles of Lexington and Concord, during the American Revolutionary War. He was a founding member and president of the Thoreau Society.
Born in Boston, French attended Harvard University for his undergraduate education.
Several of his children's books were illustrated by painter Andrew Wyeth.

Works

Fiction

  • The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924.
  • The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in year 1165, Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press, 1997
  • The Lost Baron
  • Sir Marrok
  • Heroes of Iceland
  • The Story of Grettir the Strong
  • The Colonials
  • The Barrier
  • At Plattsburg, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917.

Non-fiction

  • The Siege of Boston, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911.
  • First Year of the American Revolution
  • General Gage's Informers
  • Historic Concord and the Lexington Fight.
  • Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Houghton Mifflin, 1955.

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