Walter Allen was born in Aston, Birmingham in February 1911. Allen was a novelist and literary critic best known for his work, The English Novel: a Short Critical History. Writers on Writing is an instruction on creative writing. He gave up writing novels and continued incessantly with non-fiction. This was disrupted by a stroke in the mid-seventies. He was a teacher and a journalist. At one time he was the literary editor of the New Statesman. Allen died in London on February 28, 1995.
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