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About Grant Allen
An Interview with Grant Allen
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Grant Allen was born on February 24, 1848 near Kingston, Ontario, in Canada. Though
largely forgotten today, during his lifetime he was a prolific and popular writer who
published widely in diverse areas, which were as various as his own intellectual pursuits
that ranged from the sciences to literature. Titles of several of his books reveal his
breadth of interests, including The Evolutionist at Large (1881), and Biographies
of Working Men (1884). As a naturalist and professed socialist, he embraced a number of
radical views for his time, such as the advancement of women's rights. For example, his
novel The Woman who did (1895), espoused a then controversial literacy critique of
sexual conventions and marriage. His best stories, which featured the notorious conartist
and thief, Colonel Clay, first appeared in the Strand Magazine and later were collected in
the book, An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel
Clay (1897), commonly regarded by many critics as the first fictional work to feature a
criminal protagonist.
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