Gay Wilson Allen was a professor emeritus of English at New York University. He was the author of a number of books, among them William James, a Biography, The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville and His World.

Gay Wilson Allen was a professor emeritus of English at New York University. He was the author of a number of books, among them William James, a Biography, The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville and His World.

Gay Wilson Allen was a professor emeritus of English at New York University. He was the author of a number of books, among them William James, a Biography, The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville and His World.