Martin Green (author)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article does not cite any references or sources. (June 2007)
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

Martin Green (born July 10, 1932) is an English born writer, editor and publisher.

Born in Stockport, England, he was schooled at A. S. Neill's Summerhill, while his parents fought in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He worked as an editor at MacGibbon & Kee where he published alongside Tim O'Keeffe and later they formed their own publishing house, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, with the editor Brian Rooney. Here, due to his efforts, Martin collected & published Patrick Kavanagh.^[1] He also published books by Flann O'Brien, Hugh MacDiarmid, Francis Stuart, Colin MacInnes, Robert Graves, Frank Sargeson, Paul Potts and many other writers.^[2]

Of his own literary output, Martin has 8 books, 4 plays, and has contributed to numerous other publications including The Other Jerome K Jerome (1984) & Myles Away from Dublin (1985). He has 6 children : Catherine,Crispin,Polly,Barnaby,Katie & Daisy He lives in Newlyn, Cornwall, with his cat Nefertiti.