Henry Green's unusually spare novels, which experiment with a steadily increasing proportion of dialogue to narrative, appeared during the mid twentieth century. He also published an autobiography.
Milestones
29 October 1905 HG, novelist (whose actual name was Henry Vincent Yorke: Green was his
nom de plume), was born at
Tewkesbury in
Gloucestershire.
1945 Loving, called by some critics possibly HG's best-known and loved novel, was published by
Hogarth Press, who published his next novel
Back the following year.
13 December 1973 HG, novelist, died in
London after twenty years as a recluse.
