“A” is for Allan, Glenn [1899-1955]. author. Journalist. After graduating from the Citadel and working on a western dude ranch, Allan took jobs with the Greenville News and the Atlanta Journal. He then moved on to the New York Herald Tribune and later to the New Yorker. After years of writing free-lance sports articles and short stories for pulp magazines, he decided to try fiction-writing full time. Several of his stories of poor, white, quaint, and colorful ignorant “swampers,” were collected in a volume of linked tales, Little Sorrowful.” His most popular creation, however, was “Boysi,” a comical, stereotypical black servant getting his way with white employers. The stories were immensely popular and a collection of them appeared in 1946 as Boysi Himself. Glenn Allan's works were mildly amusing but quickly fell out of favor and out of print.
“A” is for Allan, Glenn [1899-1955]
