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Allen, (William) Hervey
Allen, [William] Hervey (1889–1949), born in Pittsburgh, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and served in World War I, as he described in his autobiographical novel Toward the Flame (1926). He taught English at Charleston, S.C., where with DuBose Heyward he wrote the poems Carolina Chansons (1922). He is best known as a novelist and for his carefully documented biography of Poe, Israfel (1926). Anthony Adverse (1933), a lengthy picaresque romance of the Napoleonic era, sold a half‐million copies during its first two years. Action at Aquila (1938) is a novel of the Civil War, and It Was Like This (1940) contains two World War I stories. The City in the Dawn (1950) collects three novels, The Forest and the Fort (1943), Bedford Village (1944), and Toward the Morning (1948), about Salathiel Albine, an 18th‐century frontiersman and soldier reared by Indians in the colony of New York.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Allen, (William) Hervey." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Allen, (William) Hervey." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-AllenWilliamHervey.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Allen, (William) Hervey." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-AllenWilliamHervey.html |
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Hervey Allen
Hervey Allen 1889–1949, American novelist and poet, b. Pittsburgh, grad. Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1915. After service in World War I, he taught English in Charleston, S.C., where, in collaboration with DuBose Heyward, he wrote Carolina Chansons (1922), a volume of verse. He wrote other books of poetry but is best known for his excellent biography of Poe, Israfel (1926), and the picaresque novel Anthony Adverse (1933), which achieved enormous popular success. |
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"Hervey Allen." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Hervey Allen." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Allen-He.html "Hervey Allen." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Allen-He.html |
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