Everett S. Allen was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and moved to Martha's Vineyard when he was eight years old. He was a reporter for the New Bedford Standard-Times newspaper.
Biographical sketches of thirteen contemporary American writers of humorous verse: Franklin Pierce Adams, Richard Willard Armour, Margaret Fishback, Arthur Guiterman, Oliver Herford, Samuel Goodman Hoffenstein, Donald Robert Perry Marguis, Phyllis McGinley, Christopher Darlington Morley, Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, James Whitcomb Riley, and Bert Leston Taylor.
