Allen French
Encyclopedia
Allen French 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
.
Born in Boston, French attended Harvard University
for his undergraduate education.
Several of his children's books were illustrated by painter Andrew Wyeth
.
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...
. He was a founding member and president of the Thoreau Society
Thoreau Society
Established in 1941, the Thoreau Society has long contributed to the dissemination of knowledge about Henry David Thoreau by collecting books, manuscripts, and artifacts relating to Thoreau and his contemporaries, by encouraging the use of its collections, and by publishing articles in two Society...
.
Born in Boston, French attended Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
for his undergraduate education.
Several of his children's books were illustrated by painter Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Newell Wyeth was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century....
.
Fiction
- Allen French, The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924.
- Allen French, The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in year 1165, Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press, 1997
- Allen French, The Lost Baron
- Allen French, Sir Marrok
- Allen French, Heroes of Iceland
- Allen French, The Story of Grettir the Strong
- Allen French, The Colonials
Non-Fiction
- Allen French, The Siege of Boston, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911.
- 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.