James Lane Allen Novelist

• Gender: Male
• Citizenship: United States
• Born: Dec 21, 1849
• Died: Feb 18, 1925

James Lane Allen was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist."