Allen French

Allen French (November 28, 1870 October 6, 1946) was an American historian and fiction author. He wrote several books on the history of the American Revolution, including The Taking of Ticonderoga in 1775, General Gage's Informers (1932), The First Year of the American Revolution (1934), and Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval (1955), as well as children's stories and historical fiction. He also edited the diary A British Fusilier in Revolutionary Boston (1926).

Biography Early life and education Allen French was born on November 28, 1870, in Boston. He attended grade school in Boston, going to Rice Primary and Grammar Schools and the Boston Latin School, before graduating from The English High School. He also wrote several books about Iceland, as well as a 1907 book on gardening and a history article on the Île de Ré.

French taught at Harvard as a history instructor (1908–1913; 1919–1920). Allan Forbes reported that "though it takes three generations to make a real "Concord man," it has been said that French shared Old Concord with Emerson, Buttrick, Judge Hoar, and others." working at the First Parish in Concord as deacon and as Sunday school superintendent.

Works Fiction The Junior Cup (1901) (1902) The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (1904) (1906) The Golden Eagle (1917) (1914) The Taking of Ticonderoga in 1775 (1928) General Gage's Informers (1932) The First Year of the American Revolution (1934) The Drama of Concord (1935)