Allen French

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]

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[]

• The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924.^[2]
• The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in year 1165, Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press, 1997^[3]
• The Lost Baron^[4]
• Sir Marrok
• Heroes of Iceland
• The Story of Grettir the Strong
• The Colonials
• The Barrier^[5]
• At Plattsburg, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917.^[6]
• Pelham and His Friend Tim

Non-fiction[]

• The Siege of Boston, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911.^[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, Houghton Mifflin, 1955.^[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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