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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.²
• The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (1924), Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.³
• The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in Year 1165 (19??) [1997], Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press.⁴
• The Lost Baron⁵
• Heroes of Iceland
• The Story of Grettir the Strong
• The Colonials
• The Barrier⁶
• Pelham and His Friend Tim

Non-fiction

• The Siege of Boston (1911), New York: The Macmillan Company.⁷
• 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.⁸

External links

• Children's literature portal

• Works by Allen French at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Allen French at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about Allen French at the Internet Archive
• Works by Allen French at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA

References

1. "ALLEN FRENCH PAPERS, 1898-1957". Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2008-09-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20090108041452/http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/A_French.htm ↩

2. Allen French, At Plattsburg, Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25825 ↩

3. Allen French, The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=GzUOAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french ↩

4. Allen French, The Red Keep, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=va8OAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french ↩

5. Allen French, The Lost Baron, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=UxHfAAAACAAJ&q=allen+french ↩

6. Allen French, The Barrier, archive.org https://archive.org/details/barriernovel00freniala ↩

7. Allen French, The Siege of Boston, Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/siegeboston00frengoog ↩

8. Allen French, Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=nmUDAAAAMAAJ&q=allen+french ↩