Henry Green

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For other persons named Henry Green, see Henry Green (disambiguation).

Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke[1] (October 29, 1905-December 13, 1973), an English author who is famous for writing Loving, which is featured by Time in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 list.[2]

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Green was born near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, into an educated family with successful business interests. His father was a wealthy landowner and industrialist in Birmingham. His mother was a daughter of the second Baron Leconfield.[3] Green grew up in Gloucestershire and attended Eton College, where he wrote most of his first novel, Blindness. He then went to Oxford University, which he left in 1926 without taking a degree, as he did not sit for his examination.[4] Green was also a schoolmate of Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh.[5]

After leaving school, he came back to Birmingham to engage in his family business. He started by working with the ordinary workers on the factory floor of his family's factory which produced beer-bottling machines, and later became the managing director there. During this time he gained the experience to write Living, his second novel, which is written during 1927-1928.[6] He served as a fireman at Auxiliary Fire Service during World War II.[3] Green was married to Dig, who came from Adelaide, and had a son.[3]

In 1940, Green published Pack My Bag, which he regarded as a nearly-accurate autobiography.[7] In his later years, Green became increasingly focused on studies of the Ottoman Empire. Green's novels are often described as being, with those of Virginia Woolf, among the most important works of English modernist literature.[8] Green stopped his writing career in 1952, after releasing nine novels and a memoir.[1] In 1993, a collection of previously unpublished works; Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green were released, edited by grandson Matthew Yorke and published by Viking Press.[3]

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  1. ^ a b Loving - ALL-TIME 100 Novels - TIME
  2. ^ The Complete List | TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels
  3. ^ a b c d "Reading Henry Green," by Brooke Allen, from The New Criterion]
  4. ^ Molten Treasure - TIME
  5. ^ Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green - Review | Insight on the News | Find Articles at BNET.com
  6. ^ Sebastian Faulks on Henry Green | Review | guardian.co.uk Books
  7. ^ http://www.theparisreview.org/media/GREEN.pdf
  8. ^ Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown

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Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown ISBN 0-571-16898-1