Allen French (28 November 1870 –6 October 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.[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]

References

  1. ↑ "ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957". Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
  2. ↑ Allen French, At Plattsburg, Project Gutenberg
  3. ↑ Allen French, The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Google Books
  4. ↑ Allen French, The Red Keep, Google Books
  5. ↑ Allen French, The Lost Baron, Google Books
  6. ↑ Allen French, The Barrier, archive.org
  7. ↑ Allen French, The Siege of Boston, Internet Archive
  8. ↑ Allen French, Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Google Books


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