Henry Green

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HG '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.
Bullock, Alan et al., editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins.

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.
Allen, Brooke. “Reading Henry Green”. The New Criterion online: Volume11, No. 7.

13 December 1973

HG , novelist, died in London after twenty years as a recluse.
Bullock, Alan et al., editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Biography

Birth and Background

29 October 1905

HG , novelist (whose actual name was Henry Vincent Yorke : Green was his nom de plume), was born at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.
Bullock, Alan et al., editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins.

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