Harlan Greene

Harlan Greene is an American writer and historian.^[1] He has published both fiction and non-fiction works.^[2]

Born in 1953 in Charleston, South Carolina,^[3][4] Greene's parents were Holocaust survivors who moved to Charleston after World War II.^[1] He also spent several years living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in early adulthood, with his then-partner Olin Jolley.^[1]

He won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for his 1991 novel What the Dead Remember,^[4] and was nominated for the same award for his 2005 novel The German Officer's Boy.^[5]

In addition to his writing, Greene has worked as an archivist for the College of Charleston,^[6] including collecting materials relating to Jewish history in the Charleston region.^[1]

Openly gay, Greene lives in Charleston with his partner Jonathan Ray.^[1]

Works

Fiction

• Why We Never Danced the Charleston (1985, 978-0140082180)
• What the Dead Remember (1991, ISBN 978-0452268654)
• The German Officer's Boy (2005, ISBN 978-0299208103)

Non-fiction

• Charleston: City of Memory (1987, ISBN 978-0933101111)
• Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance (2001, ISBN 978-0820322117)
• Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940 (2003, ISBN 978-0820325187)
• Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865 (2004, ISBN 978-0786417292)
• Cornices of Charleston (2005, ISBN 978-0976717119)

References