Pringle, and Allan Nevins (before his Columbia appointment). Aside from Allen, these historians included Carl Sandburg, Bernard DeVoto, Douglas Southall Freeman, Henry F. This interest was met, not by the university-employed historian, but by an amateur historian writing in his free time. Works Īllen's popularity coincided with increased interest in history among the book-buying public of the 1920s and 1930s. He died on February 13, 1954, and is buried in lot 395, section 7 of Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain. His wife, Dorothy Penrose Allen ( née Cobb, a first cousin of Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker), died just prior to the 1931 publication of his best-known book, Only Yesterday. He began working for Harper's in 1923, becoming editor-in-chief in 1941, a position he held until shortly before his death, aged 63, in New York City. He taught at Harvard briefly thereafter before becoming assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly in 1914, and then managing editor of The Century in 1916. He studied at Groton, graduated from Harvard University in 1912 and received his Master's in 1913. His specialty was writing about recent and popular history.Īllen was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Frederick Lewis Allen (J– February 13, 1954) was the editor of Harper's Magazine and also notable as an American historian of the first half of the twentieth century.
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