Allen, Willis Boyd
author, was born July 9, 1855, in Kittery Point, Maine.
He attended the Boston Latin school, and in 1878 graduated from Harvard college.
He has been editor of Cottage Hearth; Our Sunday Afternoon, and Wellspring.
He is the author of twenty-eight books for young people, the most notable of which are: Pine Cone Stories, in six volumes; Red Mountain of Alaska; Lion City of Africa; Camp Vagabond; Mammoth Hunters; The Great Island; Boyhood of John Kent; Christmas at Surf Point; Snowed In; A Son of Liberty; Called to the Front; Mountaineer Series, in five volumes; Forest Home Series, in five volumes; John Brownlow's Folks; and In the Morning.