Henry Green

From Free net encyclopedia

Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke (October 29, 1905-December 13, 1973) . He was born near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire of an educated family with successful business interests in Birmingham. He went to Eton College and Oxford, which he left in 1926 without taking a degree. He served as a fireman during World War II. He is the author of numerous novels of social satire.

Henry Green was a friend of British novelist Graham Greene, whose real name was in fact Henry Graham Greene.

Bibliography

• Blindness (1926)
• Living (1929)
• Party Going (1939)
• Pack My Bag (1940)
• Caught (1943)
• Loving (1945)
• Back (1946)
• Concluding (1948)
• Nothing (1950)
• Doting (1952)
• Surviving: the Uncollected Writings of Henry Green (1992)

External links

• A review by Thomas C Foster
• "Reading Henry Green," by Brooke Allen, from The New Criterion

Books

Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown ISBN 0571168981