Allen, Hervey

Allen, Hervey

American author
in full  William Hervey Allen, Jr.  
born Dec. 8, 1889, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.
died Dec. 28, 1949, Coconut Grove, Fla.

      American poet, biographer, and novelist who had a great impact on popular literature with his historical novel Anthony Adverse.

      Allen's first published work was a book of poetry, Ballads of the Border (1916). During the 1920s he established a reputation as a poet, publishing several more volumes of verse.

      Allen was wounded in World War I; the novel Toward the Flame (1926) came out of his wartime experience. That same year his authoritative biography Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe was published.

      In 1933, after five years of writing, he published Anthony Adverse, which was a huge success. Set in Europe during the Napoleonic era, Anthony Adverse offered a multitude of characters and picturesque settings within a complex plot. The book's undisguised passages about sex and its considerable length introduced a new standard for popular fiction.

      Allen's following novels did not attain the popularity or the critical acclaim of Anthony Adverse, although the first three volumes of his planned five-volume series about colonial America (The Forest and the Fort, 1943; Bedford Village, 1944; Toward the Morning, 1948) were widely read. Allen was at work on the fourth volume of the series (The City in the Dawn; published posthumously, 1950) at the time of his death.

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