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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 · The Henry Green novel—typically portraying failures of love and understanding, and noisy with the vernacular of industrialists and Cockneys, landowners and servants—was terse, intimate, full ...
Oct 12, 2017 · Few people are as mysterious after twenty years as they are on a first meeting—except in the novels of Henry Green. Maybe they should be. His radio broadcasts have a touch of the manifesto about them, as if laying down a path for the novel of the future, a way to capture something we’ve lost, some sense of “what never can be said.”
Henry Green, who died in 1973 at the age of sixty-eight, was one of the best English novelists of the twentieth century, and the hardest to classify.
Henry Green was born Henry Vincent Yorke in 1905, the son of a wealthy industrialist, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. He went to Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He published his first novel while still an undergraduate.
Oct 17, 2016 · Henry Green is renowned for being a “writer’s-writer’s writer” and a “neglected” author. The two, it would seem, go hand in hand, but neither are quite true. This list of reasons to read Henry Green sets out to loosen the inscrutability of the man and his work.
Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke. Green was born near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, into an educated family with successful business interests. His father Vincent Wodehouse Yorke, the son of John Reginald Yorke and Sophia Matilda de Tuyll de Serooskerken, was a wealthy landowner and industrialist in Birmingham.
Henry Green was a novelist and industrialist whose sophisticated satires mirrored the changing class structure in post-World War II English society. After completing his education at Eton and Oxford, he entered the family business, an engineering firm in Birmingham; he worked his way up to become.
Henry Green, 1958. Henry Green is a tall, gracious, and imposingly handsome man, with a warm, strong voice and very quick eyes. In speech he displays on occasion that hallmark of the English public school: the slight tilt of the head and closing of the eyes when pronouncing the first few wo...
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...
