Emery Allen is a writer, editor, teacher, and film producer. Allen was born in Fort Worth, Texas and grew up in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He attended the University of North Texas, where he received his B.A. in Communications and later studied at the University of Texas at Austin for an MFA in Fiction Writing
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Allen has worked as a freelance writer for newspapers across the country including The Washington Post, El Paso Times, El Paso Herald-Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Plain Dealer, The San Antonio Express-News, The Houston Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The Baltimore Sun and others. He is also the author of several other books including "A Million Miles South", "The Dallas Observer", "The New York Times", "The Atlantic Monthly", "The San Francisco Chronicle", "The New York Times Book Review", "Cosmopolitan" and "American Magazine".