| Frederick Lewis Allen Born: 5-Jul-1890
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Died: 13-Feb-1954
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Editor of Harpers, 1941-53 Wife: Dorothy Penrose (m. 1918, d. 1930)
University: BA, Harvard University (1912)
University: MA, Harvard University (1913)
Administrator: Trustee, Bennington College
Atlantic Monthly Assistant Editor 1914-6
Century Magazine Managing Editor 1916-7
Harper's Joined 1923, Editor in Chief 1941-53
Author of books:
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's in America (1931, nonfiction)
Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America (1940, nonfiction)
The Great Pierpont Morgan (1949, biography)
The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950 (1952, nonfiction)
The Lords of Creation (1966, nonfiction, about the Robber-Barons)
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