About Robert Thomas Allen
Lived 1911 – 1990 (aged 78–79). Robert Thomas Allen was a Canadian writer and children's writer.
Robert Thomas Allen (1911–1990) was a Canadian humorist, best known as a two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for humour. He won the award in 1957 for The Grass Is Never Greener, and in 1971 for Wives, Children and Other Wild Life. and was a freelance contributor of humorous essays to publications such as Maclean's, Saturday Night, The Canadian, Weekend and Star Weekly.
Following his retirement, Allen and his family moved to Sun City, California in 1983. He died of a heart attack in San Bernardino in 1990, aged 79.
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Who was Robert Thomas Allen?
Canadian writer
When was Robert Thomas Allen born?
Robert Thomas Allen was born in 1911 in Toronto.
When did Robert Thomas Allen die?
Robert Thomas Allen died on 11 July 1990 in San Bernardino.
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Robert Thomas Allen was a writer and children's writer.
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Robert Thomas Allen was Canadian.
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