Allan Seager (February 5, 1906 – May 10, 1968)[1] was an American novelist and short story writer based in Michigan. His stories were published in such leading magazines as The New Yorker and Esquire. He also taught creative writing to generations of students at the University of Michigan from 1935 to 1968.
Seager won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. After returning to the United States, he worked for a time as an assistant editor at Vanity Fair magazine in New York City. He returned to the university at Ann Arbor to teach creative writing and write his own works. He published five novels, more than 80 short stories, some of which are collected in two books; and a biography of poet Theodore Roethke.