After working for the Council on National Defense from 1917 to 1918 and a stint as Harvard's publicity manager from 1919 to 1923, Allen was hired as an editor for Harper's Magazine and spent the rest of his career there, becoming Harper's editor-in-chief in 1941. In 1914, he was hired by the prestigious Atlantic Monthly. He received a superb education at Groton School and then at Harvard University, where he helped edit the literary magazine, and earned a B.A. The son of an Episcopalian minister, Allen was descended from a line of estimable New Englanders that went back to the Mayflower. Frederick Lewis Allen (July 5, 1890–February 13, 1954) was a writer, magazine editor, and popular historian.
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