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Allen French
American writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Allen French (November 28, 1870 – 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.[1]
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.[2]
- The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (1924), Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.[3]
- The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in Year 1165 (19??) [1997], Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press.[4]
- The Lost Baron[5]
- Heroes of Iceland
- The Story of Grettir the Strong
- The Colonials
- The Barrier[6]
- Pelham and His Friend Tim
Non-fiction
- The Siege of Boston (1911), New York: The Macmillan Company.[7]
- First Year of the American Revolution
- General Gage's Informers
- 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.[8]
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