About Samuel W. Allen
Lived 1917 – 2015 (aged 97–98). Samuel W. Allen was an American lawyer, writer, compiler, poet, literary scholar and university teacher.
Samuel Washington Allen (December 9, 1917 – June 27, 2015), sometimes publishing as Paul Vesey, was an American writer, literary scholar, and lawyer.
Samuel Washington Allen was born on December 9, 1917, in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated as valedictorian of Fisk University in 1938 with an AB in sociology. At Fisk, he studied with James Weldon Johnson. He received a JD from Harvard Law School in 1941 and was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942.
After World War II ended, Allen studied at The New School for a year and then went to Paris on the G.I. Bill, studying at the Sorbonne from 1948 to 1949.
Allen died on June 27, 2015, in Norwood, Massachusetts.
Books Elfenbein Zähne (Wolfgang Rothe, 1956) Ivory Tusks and Other Poems (Kriya Press, 1968) Paul Vesey's Ledger (Bremen, 1975) Every Round and Other Poems (1987)
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American writer, literary scholar, and lawyer (1917–2015)
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Samuel W. Allen died in 2015 in Norwood, Boston.
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