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]

References

1. ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957
2. Allen French, The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Google Books
3. Allen French, The Red Keep, Google Books
4. Allen French, The Lost Baron, Google Books
5. Allen French, The Barrier, archive.org
6. Allen French, The Siege of Boston, Internet Archive
7. Allen French, Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Google Books

External links

• Works by Allen French at Project Gutenberg
• 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