![]() With his second wife, Agnes Rogers, he also composed three photographic histories of American life. Through the 1930s and 1940s, he published works of social history, like Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties (1931), Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America (1940), and American Magazines, 1741-1941 (1941). Wells, Allen helped to edit both fiction and nonfiction, while he continued to publish his own pieces in magazines like Life and the Independent.Īllen never stopped his own writing career, however. ![]() By 1923, Allen was back in publishing as an editorial assistant at Harper and Brothers. After the war, Allen continued in public relations work for a short time, managing the public image of Harvard University. The first of these was at the Boston’s Writers’ Committee for Patriotic Service, where Allen did his part for the war effort the second was at the Council of National Defense’s section on cooperation with States. Allen became managing editor of The Century in 1916.Īllen took two posts in public relations. He continued to publish his own work, including both humor pieces and earnest essays discussing the day’s events. ![]() He was swept up into the magazine world, first as an assistant editor at the Atlantic Monthly. ![]() ![]() (age 63) Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesĪllen began to publish his work in journals when he was at Harvard. ![]()
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