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Donald Allen was born on 1912 in United States, is an American editor, publisher and translator. Discover Donald Allen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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1945

He is best known for his project The New American Poetry 1945-1960 (1960), one of the anthologies of contemporary American writing he released.

Allen began his working life as a Japanese translator within the US military, serving during WWII.

After his service ended, Allen became an editor at Grove Press, where he worked for 16 years.

1957

The papers document Allen's editing and publishing works dating from 1957 to 1975, although some material is from the 1930s.

1958

He was one of the first translators of the Romanian-French Absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco, and Allen's 1958 volume Four Plays of Eugène Ionesco helped to introduce the playwright to American audiences in the 1960s.

1960

In 1960, Allen moved from New York to San Francisco, where he established Grey Fox Press and the Four Seasons Foundation, two literary presses where he continued to publish works from Beat, San Francisco Renaissance, Black Mountain, and New York School writers.

Also in 1960, Allen edited the anthology The New American Poetry.

In that book, released through Grey Fox Press, Allen included "Statements of Poetics," which was an experimental aesthetics discussion from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Whalen, Snyder, Michael McClure, Jones, John Wieners, along with Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Grey Fox Press and Four Seasons Foundation were among the many emerging presses that City Lights distributed in the late 1960s, and when Don Allen began thinking about retirement, City Lights offered to acquire the backlists.

Today, City Lights publishes the significant works from these presses in their City Lights/Grey Fox series.

1971

Along with editing works by Lew Welch, Allen edited Frank O'Hara, including Collected Poems (1971; 1991) and Selected Poems (1974).

He is referred to directly in O'Hara's "Personal Poem" which is in Lunch Poems, a book Allen also edited.

O'Hara writes, in reference to a conversation he had with LeRoi Jones, "we don't like Lionel Trilling/we decide, we like Don Allen."

John Rechy records in his memoirs that Allen offered him the contract to publish City of Night.

1980

As the CEO of Grey Fox Press, he published works by Jack Spicer, along with Enough Said (1980) by Philip Whalen, and I Remain (1980), a collection of Welch's letters.

Other authors published by Grey Fox Press included Richard Brautigan, Robert Duncan, Jack Kerouac, Joanne Kyger, Philip Lamantia, Charles Olson, John Rechy, Michael Rumaker, Aaron Shurin, and Gary Snyder.

While working with the Four Seasons Foundation, Allen also assisted in the publication of (among others): Interviews (1980) by Edward Dorn, A Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays (1970) by Robert Creeley, and The Graces (1983) by Aaron Shurin.

1991

The Donald Allen Collection, processed in 1991 for a special collection series at the UC San Diego library, contains materials which Allen published through the Four Seasons Foundation and Grey Fox Press.

1997

In 1997, Allen helped edit, along with Benjamin Friedlander, the Collected Prose of Charles Olson (University of California Press).

2004

Donald Merriam Allen (Iowa, 1912 – San Francisco, August 29, 2004) was an American editor, publisher and translator of American literature.