JAMES LANE ALLEN
JAMES LANE ALLEN
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Author, Educator. Graduated from Transylvania University in 1872, and received his Master's degree from Transylvania in 1877. After graduation, he embarked on a teaching career in Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia. In 1893 he moved to New York to pursue writing. His published works include "With Flute and Violin" (1891), "The Blue Grass Region" (1892), "John Gray" (1893), "A Kentucky Cardinal" (1894), "Aftermath" (1895), "A Summer in Arcady" (1896), "The Choir Invisible" (1897), "The Reign of Law" (1900), "The Mettle of the Pasture" (1903), and "The Bride of the Mistletoe" (1909).
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James Lane Allen (December 21, 1849 – February 18, 1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late 19th-century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist".