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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Born in <a href="/facts/Boston%2c_MA/exjfn6xf">Boston</a>, French attended <a href="/facts/Harvard_University/Lhy9L1cx">Harvard University</a> for his undergraduate education. Several of his children's books were illustrated by painter <a href="/facts/Andrew_Wyeth/Q3bUABvx">Andrew Wyeth</a>. </p> <h2 id="works">Works</h2> <h3>Fiction</h3> <ul><li><i>Sir Marrok: A Tale of the Days of King Arthur</i> (1902); New York: Century.</li> <li><i>At Plattsburg</i> (1917), Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><i>The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow</i> (1924), Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li><i>The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in Year 1165</i> (19??) [1997], Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li><i>The Lost Baron</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li><i>Heroes of Iceland</i></li> <li><i>The Story of Grettir the Strong</i></li> <li><i>The Colonials</i></li> <li><i>The Barrier</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li><i>Pelham and His Friend Tim</i></li></ul> <h3>Non-fiction</h3> <ul><li><i>The Siege of Boston</i> (1911), New York: The Macmillan Company.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li><i>First Year of the American Revolution</i></li> <li><i>General Gage's Informers</i></li> <li><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_LdorAAAAIAAJ">The Day of Concord and Lexington The Nineteenth of April, 1775</a></i> (1925) <ul><li><i>Historic Concord and the Lexington Fight</i> (re-published with Leslie Perrin Wilson in 2010)</li></ul></li> <li><i>Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration</i> (1955), Houghton Mifflin.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul> <li>Children's literature portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/31596">Works by Allen French</a> at <a href="/facts/Project_Gutenberg/2l0R6GgQ">Project Gutenberg</a></li> <li><a href="https://fadedpage.com/csearch.php?author=French%2C%20Allen">Works by Allen French</a> at <a href="/facts/Distributed_Proofreaders_Canada/IXwv9cGy">Faded Page</a> (Canada)</li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22French%2C%20Allen%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Allen%20French%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22French%2C%20Allen%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Allen%20French%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Allen%20French%22%20OR%20description%3A%22French%2C%20Allen%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Allen%20French%22%29%20OR%20%28%221870-1946%22%20AND%20French%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29">Works by or about Allen French</a> at the <a href="/facts/Internet_Archive/PHStU8Lo">Internet Archive</a></li> <li><a href="https://librivox.org/author/10257">Works by Allen French</a> at <a href="/facts/LibriVox/FF71kJKC">LibriVox</a> (public domain audiobooks) </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090108041452/http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/A_French.htm">ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957". Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2008-09-02. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090108041452/http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/A_French.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20090108041452/http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/A_French.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Allen French, At Plattsburg, Project Gutenberg <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25825" target="_blank">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25825</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Allen French, The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Google Books <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GzUOAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=GzUOAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Allen French, The Red Keep, Google Books <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=va8OAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=va8OAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Allen French, The Lost Baron, Google Books <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UxHfAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=UxHfAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Allen French, The Barrier, archive.org <a href="https://archive.org/details/barriernovel00freniala" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/barriernovel00freniala</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Allen French, The Siege of Boston, Internet Archive <a href="https://archive.org/details/siegeboston00frengoog" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/siegeboston00frengoog</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Allen French, Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Google Books <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nmUDAAAAMAAJ&q=allen+french" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=nmUDAAAAMAAJ&q=allen+french</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>