Hervey Allen

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Hervey Allen (December 8, 1889 – December 28, 1949) was an American author.

He was born William Hervey Allen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Allen is best known for his work Anthony Adverse. He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called The Disinherited. He completed three works in the series: The Forest and the Fort (1943), Bedford Village (1944), and Toward the Morning (1948). The novels tell the story of Salathiel Albine, a frontiersman kidnapped as a boy by Shawnee Indians in the 1750's. All three works were collected and published as the City in the Dawn. Allen also wrote Israfel (1926), a biography of American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

For a period of time, Allen taught at the Porter Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina. There he met and befriended DuBose Heyward.

Allen died in Miami, Florida from a heart attack while in the shower, and was found by his wife Annette.