Excerpt from A Cathedral Singer
Lowly on Morningside Heights rises the Cathedral of St. John the Divine: standing on a high rock under the Northern sky above the long wash of the untroubled sea, above the wash of the troubled waves of men.
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Born in Lexington, Kentucky, The United States December 21, 1849 Died: February 18, 1925 Genre: Literature & Fiction James Lane Allen was an American novelist and short story writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His childhood experience heavily influenced his writing. He described living at Scarlet Gate in the introduction to A Kentucky Cardinal. 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."
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