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William Hervey Allen Jr.
Born(1889-12-08)December 8, 1889
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
DiedDecember 28, 1949(1949-12-28) (aged 60)
Coconut Grove, Florida, US
AllegianceUnited States

William Hervey Allen Jr. (December 8, 1889 – December 28, 1949) was an American educator, poet, and writer. He is best known for his work Anthony Adverse (made into a 1936 movie of the same name), regarded by many critics "as the model and precursor of the contemporary American historical novel."[1]

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Hervey Allen

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William Hervey Allen Jr. (December 8, 1889 – December 28, 1949) was an American educator, poet, and writer. He is best known for his work Anthony Adverse...

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The Hervey Allen Study (also known as the Glade Estates) is a historic site in South Miami, Florida. It is located at 8251 Southwest 52nd Avenue. On May...

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Anthony Adverse

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Sheridan Gibney draws elements of its plot from eight of the nine books in Hervey Allen's 1933 historical novel, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent as an...

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John White Alexander

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"Hervey Allen Papers". University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. Archived from the original on 2 June 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2015. "Hervey...

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Edward Jay Allen

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Territory. Allen wrote up their reports and also created a dictionary of the Chinook Jargon. (This unpublished dictionary may be found in "Hervey Allen Papers...

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Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s

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Inheritance by Phyllis Bentley Three Loves by A. J. Cronin Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen As the Earth Turns by Gladys Hasty Carroll Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis...

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DuBose Heyward

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Brute," in Pagan, a Magazine for Eudaemonists. The next year, he met Hervey Allen, who was teaching at the nearby Porter Military Academy. They became...

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Olivia de Havilland

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Anthony Adverse (1936) with Fredric March. Based on the popular novel by Hervey Allen, the film follows the adventures of an orphan raised by a Scottish merchant...

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Irene Hervey

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Irene Hervey (born Beulah Irene Herwick; July 11, 1909 – December 20, 1998) was an American film, stage, and television actress who appeared in over fifty...

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1930s

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Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 1933: Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen 1934: Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen 1935: Green Light by Lloyd C. Douglas 1936: Gone with...

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The Forest and the Fort

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The Forest and the Fort is an historical novel by the American writer Hervey Allen based upon the Siege of Fort Pitt in 1763. The book was a New York Times...

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Mervyn LeRoy

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performance. Based on the popular twelve-hundred page historical romance by Hervey Allen, Warner's Anthony Adverse (1936) was LeRoy's most prestigious undertaking...

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John Alan Maxwell

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Maxwell illustrated the dust jacket for the 1933 first edition of Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse, followed by Wyeth's illustration of a 1934 edition...

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Harvey Allen

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Harry Julian Allen (1910–1977), also known as Harvey Allen, NASA engineer and administrator Hervey Allen (1889–1949) American author Allen (surname) This...

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Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

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yet ultimately unfulfilling song of a heavenly muse.[citation needed] Hervey Allen likened Poe himself to Israfil and titled his 1934 biography Israfil:...

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Coconut Grove

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Hervey Allen, author of Anthony Adverse Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite Charles H. Baker, Jr., food and drink author Alexander Graham Bell, father...

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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back, and we would have another sherry. What fun she was." Novelist Hervey Allen called Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Muir "the Stewart Avenue Gang". The...

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Baby hatch

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hatches, though none have been installed. In the novel Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen, the main character is left in the foundling wheel of a convent in northern...

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Armed Services Editions

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of these books were printed in unabridged versions. Authors included Hervey Allen, Robert Benchley, Stephen Vincent Benét, Max Brand, Joseph Conrad, A...

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1949

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academician, politician and 7th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1878) December 28 Hervey Allen, American author (b. 1889) Martha Atwell, American radio director (b...

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from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 14 December 2006. Hervey, Allen (20 June 2005). "Introduction to FreeBSD, PacNOG I Workshop, Additional...

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