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Hervey Allen

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    (December 8, 1889-December 28, 1949)
    Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Birth name was William Hervey Allen, Jr.
    Best-known for the novel ‘Anthony Adverse’ (1933)
    Also wrote ‘The Forest and the Fort’ (1943), ‘Bedford Village’ (1944), and ‘Toward the Morning’ (1948)
    Published the poetry collections ‘Ballads of the Border’ (1916), ‘Wampum and Old Gold’ (1921), ‘Earth Moods and Other Poems’ (1925), and ‘New Legends and Poems’ (1933)

Why he might be annoying:

    He had to withdraw from the US Naval Academy after suffering a track and field injury (1911).
    His wife, Annette Andrews, was his former student and 19 years younger than him.
    Until the success of ‘Anthony Adverse’ he and his wife lived off money from her parents.
    He planned to write a five-novel series about colonial America, but had only completed three novels when he died.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He served in the National Guard during the Pancho Villa Expedition (1916) and in the US Army during World War I.
    He was wounded in action (August, 1918).
    He won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for ‘Wampum and Old Gold.’
    ’Anthony Adverse,’ like Pearl S. Buck’s ‘The Good Earth’ and Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone with the Wind,’ is one of the few books to have been the best-selling novel in America for two consecutive years.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying