James Peter Allen: Egiptólogo estadounidense

Fue curator (conservador) de Arte egipcio en el Metropolitan Museum of Art, de 1990 a 2006. En 2007, profesor Wilbour de egiptología en la Brown University. En 2008, fue elegido presidente de la International Association of Egyptologists (Asociación Internacional de egiptólogos).

• The Inflection of the Verb in the Pyramid Texts (Malibu: Undena, 1984)
• Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988)
• Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs (Cambridge: University Press, 2000)
• The Heqanakht papyri. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002)
• The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006)
• The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Society of Biblical Literature, 2005)
• The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Vol. 8. Middle Kingdom Copies of Pyramid Texts (Chicago: University Press, 2006)
• "The Amarna Succession"​ in Causing His Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane, University of Memphis, 2007
• Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs 2nd ed. (Cambridge: University Press, 2010)
• The Debate between a Man and His Soul, a Masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian Literature (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 44; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011)

• «James P. Allen». Brown University. Consultado el 21 de agosto de 2016. 

James Peter Allen: Curriculum Vitae