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George Hoyt Allen
1857–1938
A globe-trotting American humorist and travel writer, remembered for lively books that turned long journeys into sharp, often funny observation. His work has an easy storytelling style that still feels companionable today.
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A Yankee in the Far East
by George Hoyt Allen
About the author
George Hoyt Allen was an American writer born in 1857 and died in 1938. Library and public-domain catalog records connect him with travel writing and humor, and identify him as the author of books including It Tickled Him; Around the World with George Hoyt Allen (1910), Uncle George's Letters to the Garcia Club (1902), and A Yankee in the Far East (1915).
The surviving record suggests that travel was central to both his life and his writing. Contemporary material attached to It Tickled Him presents him not only as a writer and humorist, but also as a manufacturer and importer, which helps explain the practical, on-the-move perspective in his books. His published work turns trips abroad into anecdote, commentary, and light satire rather than formal reportage.
Allen appears to have been based in Clinton, New York, and he was buried there after his death in 1938. A clear, reliable portrait image was not readily confirmed from the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included here.