John Allen

Author John Allen has released three books about grief after losing a loved one in the last year and each has made it to number one on Amazon’s Death and Grief section. The British-born, North Carolina-based author left a corporate job after losing his father to cancer two years ago to start writing about grief to help others. In Allen’s first book, “Keep Calm and Cope with Grief,” he writes about his loss and how to handle the funeral, writing the obituary and eulogy, wills, finances, and signs from loved ones. 

Allen was born and raised in Liverpool, a working-class city in England in the United Kingdom. Growing up, money was sparse in Liverpool, but it didn't seem to affect the citizens or his family. He comes from a religious family and holds strong religious beliefs but is also open-minded, and leans upon logic, facts, and common sense. He went to the school of St John Bosco and at the early age of 16, he had a longing to become a priest but it never came to pass.