“Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.”
About Hervey Allen
8 December 1889–28 December 1949
On a crisp December day in 1889, in the bustling industrial heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, William Hervey Allen Jr. entered the world. Born on December 8 to a middle-class family—his father, an inventive engineer who devised an automatic blast furnace stoker that helped power the steel mills—young Hervey grew up…