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JAMES LANE ALLEN (1850– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 691 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:LANE See also:ALLEN (1850– )  , See also:American novelist, was See also:born near See also:Lexington, See also:Kentucky, on the 21st of See also:December 185o . He graduated at Kentucky University, Lexington, in 1872, taught at Fort See also:Spring, Kentucky, at See also:Richmond and at Lexington, See also:Missouri, and from 1877 to 1879 at the See also:academy of Kentucky University, where he was See also:principal and taught See also:modern See also:languages; in 188o he was See also:professor of Latin and See also:English at See also:Bethany See also:College, Bethany, See also:West See also:Virginia; and then became See also:head of a private school at Lexington, Kentucky . Subsequently he gave up teaching, went to New See also:York See also:City, where he secured commissions for sketches of the " See also:Blue Grass " region, and thereafter devoted himself to literature . His See also:Choir Invisible, coming after other successful stories, made his name well known in See also:England as well as See also:America .

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