biography
| name: |
Green, Julien (Hartridge)
|
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1900–98)
|
| biography:
| Writer, born of American parents in Paris, France. He studied in France and at Virginia University, and was bilingual, but wrote mainly in French. His sombre novels were usually set in French provincial towns, and deal with neurotic and obsessive characters. They include Mont-Cinère (1926, trans Avarice House), Adrienne Mesurat (1927, trans The Closed Garden), Léviathan (1929, trans The Dark Journey, which won the Harper Prize Novel contest), and Minuit (1936). For the theatre he wrote Sud (1953), L'Ennemi (1954), and L'Automate (1981). He also published his Journals (17 vols, 1919–93) and collections of essays. In 1970 the Académie Française awarded him its grand prize for literature. Later novels include Dixie (1995) which evoked the Deep South, and the play L'étudiant roux (1993). He was buried in Austria in a church which was not acceptable to the clergy in France, where a place was reserved for his adopted son, Eric. |
|
|
