his life. Allen greatly admired Thomas Jefferson. "Interest in American history and in a sort of American utopianism would characterize most of his later works." He 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 1750s. 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. In the 1940s, he co-edited the Rivers of America Series with Carl Carmer. Allen was a good friend of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and instigated her writing The Everglades: River of Grass. Allen was also close friends with Robert Frost and Ogden Nash. Personal life He married Ann Andrews on June 30, 1927. The marriage to his much younger former student was viewed as somewhat scandalous, and the couple took up residence in Bermuda. They had three children: Marcia, Mary Ann and Richard. Death and legacy Allen died at his home, called the Glades, in Coconut Grove, Florida, aged 60, from a heart attack, and was found by his wife. He is buried in section 3 GN 1730C in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. Selected works Toward the Flame, George H. Doran Company, 1926 Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe (1926) reissued 1934. Anthony Adverse (1933) Action at Aquila, Farrar & Rinehart, (1938) The Forest and the Fort (1943) Bedford Village (1944) Toward the Morning (1948) The City in the Dawn (1950) (reprint) Sources See also Anthony Adverse (1936 Hollywood film) References Hervey Allen Papers (Hervey Allen Papers, 1831–1965, SC.1952.01, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh) External links Biographical Sketch by Ryan Cannon The Rivers of America Series, A Descriptive Bibliography, Carol Fitzgerald, 2001 Works by Hervey Allen at Project Gutenberg Australia 1889 births 1949 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers American historical novelists United States Army personnel of World War I Edgar Allan Poe scholars Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters University of Pittsburgh alumni Writers from Pittsburgh Yale Younger Poets winners 20th-century American poets American male novelists American male poets Charleston Renaissance Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Novelists from Pennsylvania United States Army officers