Allen French

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.

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.
• The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (1924), Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.
• The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in Year 1165 (19??) [1997], Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press.
• The Lost Baron
• Heroes of Iceland
• The Story of Grettir the Strong
• The Colonials
• The Barrier
• Pelham and His Friend Tim

Non-fiction

• The Siege of Boston (1911), New York: The Macmillan Company.
• 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.

External links

• Works by Allen French at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Allen French at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about Allen French at the Internet Archive
• Works by Allen French at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA