Background
Smith, H. Allen was born on December 19, 1906 in McLeansboro, Illinois, United States. Son of Rhubarb, 1967.
Smith, H. Allen was born on December 19, 1906 in McLeansboro, Illinois, United States. Son of Rhubarb, 1967.
Educated in parochial schools.
Began with Huntington (Indiana) Press, at age of 15. Worked on newspapers, Jeffersonville, Louisville, Kentucky, Sebring, Florida (editor American, a daily at age of 19), Tampa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Denver, Colorado. Joined United Press as feature writer, New York City, 1929.
Staff World-Telegram, 1936-1941.
Author: Robert Gair: A Study, 1939. M. Klein’s Kampf, 1940.
Low Manitoba on a Totem Pole, 1941. Life in a Putty Knife Factory, 1943.
Lost in the Horse Latitudes, 1944.
Rhubarb, 1946. Lo, The Former Egyptian, 1947. Larks in the Popcorn, 1948.
We Went Thataway, 1949.
Low and Inside (with Ira L. Smith), 1949. People Named Smith, 1950. Three Men on Third (with Ira L. Smith), 1951.
Mister Zip, 1952.
Smith’s London Journal, 1952. The Compleat Practical Joker, 1953. The World, the Flesh, and H. Allen Smith, The Rebel Yell, 1954.
The Age of the Tail, 1955.
Write Maine a Poem, Baby, 1956. The Pig in The Barber Shop, 1958.
Don’t Get Perconel With a Chicken, 1959. Waiklki Beachnik, 1960.
Let the Crabgrass Grow, 1960.
How To Write Without Knowing Nothing, 1961. To Hell in a Handbasket (autobiography), 1962. Two-Thirds of A Coconut Tree, 1962.
A Short History of Fingers and Other State Papers, 1963.
Poor H. Allen Smith’s Almanac, 1965. Son of Rhubarb, 1967.
Buskin With H. Allen Smith, 1968. The Great Chili Confrontation, 1969.
Rude Jokes, 1970; The View from Chivo, 1971.
The Best of H. Allen Smith, 1972. Low Manitoba Rides Again, 1973. Editor: Desert Island Decameron.
Gene Fowler’s Lady Scatterly’s Lovers.
Writer national magazines Home: Alpine, Texas.
Married Nelle Mae Simpson, April. Children: Allen Wyatt, Nancy Jean (Mistress Donnell Van Noppen, Junior.