Allen French

Allen French (November 28, 1870Template:Snd October 6, 1946) was a historian and children's book author who did major research on the American Revolutionary War's Battles of Lexington and Concord. 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

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• ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA

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