Allen French Explained

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]

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957 . 2008-09-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090108041452/http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/A_French.htm . 2009-01-08 . dead .
2. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25825 Allen French, At Plattsburg, Project Gutenberg
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=GzUOAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french Allen French, The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Google Books
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=va8OAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french Allen French, The Red Keep, Google Books
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=UxHfAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french Allen French, The Lost Baron, Google Books
6. https://archive.org/details/barriernovel00freniala Allen French, The Barrier, archive.org
7. https://archive.org/details/siegeboston00frengoog Allen French, The Siege of Boston, Internet Archive
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=nmUDAAAAMAAJ&q=allen+french Allen French, Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Google Books