Samuel W. Allen

Samuel Washington Allen (December 9, 1917 – June 27, 2015), sometimes publishing as Paul Vesey, was an American writer, literary scholar, and lawyer.

[4] After World War II ended, Allen studied at The New School for a year and then went to Paris on the G.I.

[4] His 1959 essay "Negritude and Its Relevance to the American Negro Writer" was published in the journal and widely reprinted.

[2] Allen's work was not well known in the United States until the 1960s, when it was published in anthologies edited by Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes.

[4] His 1975 poetry collection Paul Vesey's Ledger "traces the long history of oppression against African Americans".