James Lane Allen | |
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| Born | December 21, 1849 Lexington, Kentucky |
| Died | February 18, 1925 (aged 75) New York, New York |
| Resting place | Lexington Cemetery |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, teacher |
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James Lane Allen (December 21, 1849 – February 18, 1925) 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".