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JAMES LANE ALLEN (1850– )

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JAMES
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LANE
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ALLEN (1850– )  ,
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American novelist, was
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born near
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Lexington,
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Kentucky, on the 21st of
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December 185o . He graduated at Kentucky University, Lexington, in 1872, taught at Fort
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Spring, Kentucky, at
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Richmond and at Lexington,
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Missouri, and from 1877 to 1879 at the
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academy of Kentucky University, where he was
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principal and taught
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modern
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languages; in 188o he was
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professor of Latin and
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English at
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Bethany
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College, Bethany,
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West
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Virginia; and then became
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head of a private school at Lexington, Kentucky . Subsequently he gave up teaching, went to New
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York
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City, where he secured commissions for sketches of the "
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Blue Grass " region, and thereafter devoted himself to literature . His
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Choir Invisible, coming after other successful stories, made his name well known in
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England as well as
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America .

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