Walter Ernest Allen was an English literary critic and novelist and one of the Birmingham Group of authors. He is best known for his classic study The English Novel: a Short Critical History (1951).
- Occupation
- poet, writer, literary critic, journalist
- Position held
- Booker Prize judge
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 23, 1911
- Died
- February 28, 1995
