Allan Andrews Brockman was born 19 April 1921 in Chester, South Carolina to Myron and Nancie Wilson Brockman. His father Myron had served as the principal of Greenville High School and superintendent of schools. Allan grew up with three brothers, Myron, James, and Wallace. Allan attended and graduated from Wofford College 1938-1942. He earned his Master of Arts from the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University in December 1946, writing his thesis as “The Early Sonnet Form of Henry Timrod”. While at the University of Pennsylvania during the 1950s, he wrote as his doctoral dissertation in American literature a biographical and critical study of Francis O. Ticknor (1822-1874), a Georgia physician and poet. In 1967, Allan submitted his dissertation to the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania while he was employed as an assistant professor in the English Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Brockman thoroughly researched the life of Dr. Ticknor. He died 6 June, 2000 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Chester, South Carolina.