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Hervey Allen

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born

January 01, 1889 in Pittsburgh, PA, The United States

died

January 01, 1949

genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Born William Hervey Allen. 1915 University of Pittsburgh graduate. In WWI served as a Lieutenant in the 28th (keystone) Division, US Army and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July-August, 1918. He wrote "Toward the Flame" (1926), a nonfictional account of his experiences in the war.

Allen is best known for his work Anthony Adverse, a 1933 bestseller. He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called The Disinherited, of which he completed three works: The Forest and the Fort (1943), Bedford Village (1944), and Toward the Morning (1948). The novels tell the story of Salathiel Albine, a frontiersman kidnapped as a boy by Shawnee Indians in the 1750s. All three works were collected and published as the City in the Dawn. Allen...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 122 ratings · 16 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Anthony Adverse 4.04 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1933 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Toward the Flame: A Memoir of World War I by Hervey Allen, Steven Kirk Trout (Introduction) 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1926 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	The Forest And The Fort: The City In The Dawn 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Israfel - The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol I 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Israfel - The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol II 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The City in the Dawn 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	Bedford Village 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1944	My rating:
	Anthony Adverse, Part 1: The Roots Of The Tree 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Anthony Adverse, Part 2 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1978 — 2 editions	My rating:

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