Allen J. Hubin (born March 5, 1936, in Crosby, Minnesota) is an American historian of crime fiction, a literary critic and bibliographer of crime fiction.
[1] Hubin studied at Wheaton College and the University of Minnesota where he graduated in 1961.
The following year, he succeeded the late Anthony Boucher as author of the column "Criminals at Large", which appeared weekly in The New York Times Book Review.
His best-known work is the production of The Bibliography of Crime Fiction, 1749–1975,[6] published in 1979 by University Extension, University of California, San Diego in cooperation with Publisher's Inc., Del Mar, California, and revised and re-released as Crime Fiction, 1749–1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography.
Updates incorporating places, films, screenwriters and directors were made in the 1981–1985 Supplement to Crime Fiction, 1749–1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography and published by Garland in 1988 before Crime Fiction II: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749–1990 came out in 1994 in two volumes.