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Allen French

{{short description|American writer}}

Allen French (November 28, 1870{{snd}} October 6, 1946) was a historian and children's book author who did major research on the American Revolutionary War's Battles of Lexington and Concord. He was a founding member and president of the Thoreau Society.{{Cite web |url=http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/A_French.htm |title=ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957 |access-date=2008-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108041452/http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/A_French.htm |archive-date=2009-01-08 |url-status=dead }}

Biography

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=

  • Sir Marrok: A Tale of the Days of King Arthur (1902); New York: Century.
  • At Plattsburg (1917), Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25825 Allen French, At Plattsburg, Project Gutenberg]
  • The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (1924), Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.[https://books.google.com/books?id=GzUOAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french Allen French, The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Google Books]
  • The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in Year 1165 (19??) [1997], Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press.[https://books.google.com/books?id=va8OAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french Allen French, The Red Keep, Google Books]
  • The Lost Baron[https://books.google.com/books?id=UxHfAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french Allen French, The Lost Baron, Google Books]
  • Heroes of Iceland
  • The Story of Grettir the Strong
  • The Colonials
  • The Barrier[https://archive.org/details/barriernovel00freniala Allen French, The Barrier, archive.org]
  • Pelham and His Friend Tim

=Non-fiction=

  • The Siege of Boston (1911), New York: The Macmillan Company.[https://archive.org/details/siegeboston00frengoog Allen French, The Siege of Boston, Internet Archive]
  • First Year of the American Revolution
  • General Gage's Informers
  • [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_LdorAAAAIAAJ The Day of Concord and Lexington The Nineteenth of April, 1775] (1925)
  • Historic Concord and the Lexington Fight (re-published with Leslie Perrin Wilson in 2010)
  • Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration (1955), Houghton Mifflin.[https://books.google.com/books?id=nmUDAAAAMAAJ&q=allen+french Allen French, Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Google Books]

References

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External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090108041452/http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/A_French.htm ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA]

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Category:1870 births

Category:1946 deaths

Category:American children's writers

Category:American military historians

Category:Harvard University alumni

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