en 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]

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 Baron^[5]
Heroes of Iceland
The Story of Grettir the Strong
The Colonials
The Barrier^[6]
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]