- Hervey Allen
Hervey Allen (
December 8 ,1889 —December 28 ,1949 ) was an Americanauthor .Biography
He was born on
December 8 ,1889 , [Nelson, Randy F. "The Almanac of American Letters". Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 49. ISBN 0-86576-008-X] as William Hervey Allen in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania and graduated fromUniversity of Pittsburgh in 1915, where he also became a member of theSigma Chi Fraternity.Allen is best known for his work "Anthony Adverse". He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called "The Disinherited". He completed three works in the series: "The Forest and the Fort" (1943), "Bedford Village" (1944), and "Toward the Morning" (1948). The novels tell the story of
Salathiel Albine , a frontiersman kidnapped as a boy byShawnee Indians in the 1750s. All three works were collected and published as the "City in the Dawn". Allen also wrote "Israfel" (1926), a biography of American writerEdgar Allan Poe .For a period of time, Allen taught at the
Porter Military Academy inCharleston, South Carolina . There he met and befriendedDuBose Heyward .In the 1940s he co-edited the
Rivers of America Series with Carl Carmer.Allen died in
Miami, Florida from a heart attack while in the shower, and was found by his wife Annette.Bibliography
* "
Anthony Adverse " (1933)
* "Israfel"
* "Action at Aquila" (1938)
* "The Forest and the Fort"Sources
* [http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Allen__Hervey.html Biographical Sketch by Ryan Cannon]
* "The Rivers of America Series, A Descriptive Bibliography", Carol Fitzgerald, 2001External links
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* [http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#allenh Works by Hervey Allen] at [http://gutenberg.net.au Project Gutenberg Australia]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7293669 Photo]
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