Hervey Allen
William Hervey Allen (December 8, 1889 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – December 28, 1949 Coconut Grove, Florida) was an American author.
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[edit] Biography
He graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 1915, where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.[1]
He served as a Lieutenant in the 28th (keystone) Division, United States Army during the World War I and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July-August, 1918. He wrote "Toward the Flame" (1926), a nonfictional account of his experiences in the war.[2]
Allen is best known for his work Anthony Adverse. He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called The Disinherited. He completed three works in the series: The Forest and the Fort (1943), Bedford Village (1944), and Toward the Morning (1948). The novels tell the story of Salathiel Albine, a frontiersman kidnapped as a boy by Shawnee Indians in the 1750s. All three works were collected and published as the City in the Dawn. Allen also wrote Israfel (1926), a biography of American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
For a period of time, Allen taught at the Porter Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina. He also taught English at Charleston High School which at that time, although public, was only for boys. (The girls went to Memminger.) There he met and befriended DuBose Heyward. He later was a professor at Vassar University where he met his wife, Ann "Annette" Andrews. They had three children, Marcia, Mary Ann and Richard.
In the 1940s he co-edited the Rivers of America Series with Carl Carmer. Allen was a good friend of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and instigated her writing The Everglades: River of Grass[3]. Allen was close friends with Robert Frost and Ogden Nash.
Allen died at his home, called the Glades, in Coconut Grove, Florida[4] from a heart attack while in the shower, and was found by his wife Annette.
[edit] Bibliography
- Wampum and old gold. Yale University Press. 1921. http://books.google.com/books?id=hp0VAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Hervey+inauthor:Allen&cd=7#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- Toward the Flame, George H. Doran Company, 1926 reprint. University of Nebraska Press. 2003. ISBN 9780803259478. http://books.google.com/books?id=YcX2M_B4Kv0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Hervey+inauthor:Allen&cd=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe (1926) reissued 1934.
- Anthony Adverse (1933) ISBN 4-87187-890-2
- Action at Aquila, Farrar & Rinehart, (1938)
- The Forest and the Fort (1943)
- Bedford Village (1944)
- Toward the Morning (1948)
- The City in the Dawn (1950)
- Achmed Abdullah, Hervey Allen, ed. (2003). Lute and Scimitar. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 9780766176263. http://books.google.com/books?id=Mg41RxvLEDcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Hervey+inauthor:Allen&lr=&cd=23#v=onepage&q=&f=false. (reprint)
[edit] Sources
- ^ Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 49. ISBN 0-86576-008-X
- ^ http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/whallenjr.htm
- ^ Douglas, Marjory Stoneman. Marjory Stoneman Douglas; Voice of the River. Englewood, FL: Pineapple Press, 1987. p. 190.
- ^ http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/whallenjr.htm
[edit] External links
- Biographical Sketch by Ryan Cannon
- The Rivers of America Series, A Descriptive Bibliography, Carol Fitzgerald, 2001
- Works by Hervey Allen at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Hervey Allen at Project Gutenberg Australia
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