Harry Allard

Harry Allard was an American writer of children's books whose work includes the Miss Nelson series, among them Miss Nelson Is Missing! and Miss Nelson Is Back. Born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1928, he earned a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1949 and a doctorate in French literature from Yale in 1952. Many of his books have received awards, and a few have been banned or challenged in the United States. He died in 2017.