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Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke (29 October 1905 – 13 December 1973), an English writer best remembered for the novels Party Going, Living, and Loving. He published a total of nine novels between 1926 and 1952.
Oct 10, 2016 · In a 1952 Life profile, W. H. Auden was quoted calling him “the best English novelist alive.” The following year, T. S. Eliot, talking to the Times, cited Green’s novels as proof that the...
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Feb 2, 2017 · In A Novelist to His Readers, broadcast by the BBC in November 1950, Green describes the writing of a novel as the attempt “to create a life which is not.” What makes a work of literary ...
Oct 17, 2016 · Green was a divisive writer in his lifetime. W. H. Auden called him “the best English novelist alive” (NB: he was still alive at the time); The Partisan Review called him “a terrorist of language.” Who was right? The answer to this question and many others, tonight.
Henry Green (born Oct. 29, 1905, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Dec. 13, 1973, London) was a novelist and industrialist whose sophisticated satires mirrored the changing class structure in post-World War II English society.
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Once hailed by W. H. Auden as “the best English novelist alive,” Henry Green—who is having a moment thanks to a series of reissues from NYRB Classics and others —may have also been the greatest listener in the history of British letters, and an unlikely one at that.
Feb 7, 1993 · LIFE AND LETTERS about English novelist Henry Green, whose real name was Henry Yorke. During much of the thirties and forties, a conventional-seeming upper-class English businessman sat in his...
