Introduction

Biography

Willis was edu­cat­ed at the La­tin School, Ha­rvard Uni­ver­si­ty (gra­du­at­ed 1878), and Bos­ton Uni­ver­si­ty (LLB 1881).

He in­i­tial­ly prac­ticed law, but af­ter a short while moved in­to li­ter­ary ef­forts full time.

Works

Allen con­trib­ut­ed piec­es to the At­lan­tic Month­ly, Cen­tu­ry, Scrib­ner’s, Har­per’s, Lip­pin­cott’s, Mun­sey’s and the North Am­er­ican Re­view.

He al­so ed­it­ed The Cot­tage Hearth Ma­ga­zine, The Well­spring and Our Sun­day Af­ter­noon (1881–93).

His oth­er works in­clude:

• Silver Rags (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: D. Lo­throp, 1886)
• The Northern Cross, or, Ran­dolph’s Last Year at the Bos­ton La­tin School (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: D. Lo­throp, 1887)
• Kelp (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: D. Lo­throp, 1888)
• The Red Moun­tain of Alas­ka (Es­tes & Laur­i­at, 1889)
• The Gold Hun­ters of Alas­ka (H. M. Cald­well, 1889)
• In the Morn­ing (Ran­dolph, 1890)
• John Brown­low’s Folks (Bo­ston, Mas­sa­chu­setts: D. Lo­throp, 1891)
• Gulf and Gla­cier (Bo­ston, Mas­sa­chu­setts: D. Lo­throp, 1892)
• Christ­mas on Wheels, 1895
• Around the Yule Log (Pil­grim Press, 1898)
• Navy Blue (E. P. Dut­ton, 1898)
• The Sleep­ing Beau­ty: A Christ­mas Story of Tod­ay (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: 1899)
• Cleared for Ac­tion: A Sto­ry of the Span­ish-Am­er­ican War of 1898 (E. P. Du­tton, 1899)
• The Head of Pasht (E.P. Du­tton, 1900)
• Play Away! (D. Estes, 1902)
• The North Pa­ci­fic (E. P. Du­tton, 1905)