Biographies of Working Men
Author: first_name: Grant
last_name: Allen
Language: English
Year: 1884

Grant Allen was an anthropologist, scientific writer, novelist and poet, though the biographer and writer Frank Harris has said of him that "He could be described with more 'ists' than anyone else I ever saw. He was an atheist and pacifist and socialist, a botanist and zoologist and optimist, a chemist and physicist, a scientist of scientists, a monist, meliorist and hedonist…".  As a novelist, he is noted as a pioneer in both the detective and science fiction genres. He was born in Canada but s