Roger MacBride Allen

{{short description|American science fiction author (born 1957)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|9|26}}

| birth_place = Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.

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| occupation = Author

| spouse = Eleanore Fox

| alma_mater = Boston University

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Roger MacBride Allen (born September 26, 1957) is an American science fiction author. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and grew up outside of Washington, D.C., graduating from Walt Whitman High School. He graduated from Boston University in 1979. His father was American historian and author Thomas B. Allen.{{cite news|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-allen&pid=191012249|title= Thomas Allen|newspaper=The Washington Post|accessdate= 2019-10-19}}

Background

Allen's family moved to Bethesda, Maryland, in 1966, when he was nine years old. He earned a degree in journalism from Boston University, after-which he returned to suburban Washington DC.{{cite web| url = http://www.foxacre.com/rma/essays/Bio.htm|work =foxacre.com | title = Biography | year = 2002}}