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]