Author

Books by Frederick Lewis Allen

Frederick Lewis Allen was an American journalist, historian, and magazine editor who lived from 1890 to 1954. He served as editor-in-chief of Harper's Magazine from 1941 until his death. His first book, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s, published in 1931, became an immediate bestseller and is still in print. The Big Change, published in 1952, was his last major work. Allen wrote history as journalism—readable, accessible, and explicitly addressed to non-specialists—and his approach influenced how popular history writing developed in the mid-twentieth century.