: About Me

Born: New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1953.

Jeffrey B. Allen graduated High School from Central Bucks East in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It was 1972.

He studied art at Bloomsburg University for two years before attending Boston University where he majored in history and minored in fine art. A one year hiatus in the form of a hitchhiking trip helped appease his restless and inquisitive nature. Allen attributes that early journey to laying the foundations for his strong views on politics and religion. Later, he traveled through Europe and Mexico where he took a particular interest in the relationship between history, politics and religion. Those years of learning, searching, and questioning have contributed greatly to the philosophical depth of Allen's writing.

Allen graduated from Millersville State University in architectural design and taught for two years while also working toward his Masters Degree at Temple University in Philadelphia. After a brief teaching career, he created his own architectural woodworking firm in 1980.

By 1982, Allen was owner and president of Artistic Furnishings Incorporated, a design house and manufacturer of custom architectural millwork. The company employed designers, artisans and support staff. His work can be seen throughout eastern Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey in private residences and businesses. During those years he traveled at home and abroad and studied the architectural works, both classical and modern, within every city he visited. The inventiveness of the architects of antiquity partnered with ingenius engineering amazed him. "So much of history can be discovered within the architecture of civilized man."

In 1996 Allen received his fifty ton US Coast Guard captain's license and followed that with extensive sailing adventures and chartered voyages. In 2006 Allen received the Holt Businessman-of-the-Year award. In 2007 Allen sold his architectural woodworking business and soon after published his first novel, GoneAway Into the Land. He writes as the Interior Design Specialist for the Lehigh Valley Examiner and he is the Edition Editor for Awareness Audiobooks. Allen is currently working with a new publisher and expects his second novel, Beneath the Quarry Waters, to be published in early 2010.

Today, Jeffrey B. Allen lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

My passion is ...

Writing

I know too much about ...

Nothing

My parents always told me ...

be accountable to your decisions

My childhood ambition ...

to be like my grandfather

My favorite memory ...

the birth of my children

Why I write ...

to satisfy a deep seated need to create something of lasting value that invokes an emotional response.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am reading my publicists new book, Flinthouse, by Nancetta Liles

My first job ...

was as a caretaker of an estate

My best moment ...

the day I realized I had found the woman I would spend the rest of my life with.

My inspiration ...

My father,who recently passed away, yet remains a vital part of who I am, for better or worse.

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