Editing Walter Allen (section)

==Life and career==
Allen was born in [[Aston]], Birmingham; he drew on his working-class roots for ''All in a Lifetime'' (1959), generally considered his best novel. He was educated at [[King Edward VI Aston|King Edward's Grammar School]] and the [[University of Birmingham]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Head |first=Dominic |title=The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English |year=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-83179-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000unse_r1h5/page/20 20] |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000unse_r1h5/page/20 }}</ref> graduating in 1932—his friends at that period included [[Henry Reed (poet)|Henry Reed]] and [[Louis MacNeice]].{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

He taught and took numerous temporary academic positions. In 1935, he was a Visiting Lecturer in English at the University of Iowa, Iowa City; from 1955 to 1956 he was visiting professor of English at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; from 1963 to 1964 he was visiting professor of English, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, and in 1967 he was at University of Kansas, Lawrence, and University of Washington, Seattle.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Vinson|first1=James|title=Contemporary Novelists|date=1972|publisher=St. James Press|location=London|isbn=0900997125|page=37}}</ref> He also worked in journalism, being at one time literary editor of the ''[[New Statesman]]'';<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Allen|title=Walter Allen – British writer}}</ref> and was a broadcaster.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} In 1967 he took a position as Professor of English Studies at the [[New University of Ulster]].{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

Allen published many novels early in his career mostly dealing with the life of the working class in England. ''As I Walked Down New Grub Street'' which accounts his meetings with prominent literary figures was published in 1982.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} After a significant break from fiction-writing for 27 years he published ''Get Out Early'' in 1986.<ref name=":0" />
He was known as an editor of [[George Gissing]]. He wrote some poetry, which appeared in [[John Lehmann]]'s publications in the 1940s. He left much writing in manuscript. He died in [[London]].{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}