Allen French

Allen French (28 November 1870-1946) 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]

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

• Allen French, The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924.^[2]
• Allen French, The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in year 1165, Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press, 1997^[3]
• Allen French, The Lost Baron^[4]
• Allen French, Sir Marrok
• Allen French, Heroes of Iceland
• Allen French, The Story of Grettir the Strong
• Allen French, The Colonials
• Allen French, The Barrier^[5]

Non-Fiction

• Allen French, The Siege of Boston, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911.^[6]
• Allen French, First Year of the American Revolution
• Allen French, General Gage's Informers
• Allen French, Historic Concord and the Lexington Fight.
• Allen French, Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Houghton Mifflin, 1955.^[7]

External links

• ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA

References

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