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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
• Historic Concord and the Lexington Fight
• Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration (1955), Houghton Mifflin.[8]

References

External links

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

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