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Henry Green


Born
in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, The United Kingdom
October 29, 1905

Died
December 13, 1973

Genre
Literature & Fiction


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. His mother, Hon. Maud Evelyn Wyndham, was daughter of the second Baron Leconfield. Green grew up in Gloucestershire and attended Eton College, where he became friends with fellow pupil Anthony Powell and wrote most of his first novel, Blindness. He studied at Oxford University and there began a friendship and literary rivalry with Evelyn Waugh.

Green left Oxford in 1926 without taking a degree and returned to Birm ...more

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Average rating: 3.57 · 8,364 ratings · 1,051 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors
Loving
3.51 avg rating — 3,923 ratings — published 1945 — 49 editions
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Party Going
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3.47 avg rating — 1,048 ratings — published 1939 — 2 editions
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Loving / Living / Party Going
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3.67 avg rating — 692 ratings — published 1945 — 13 editions
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Living
3.67 avg rating — 539 ratings — published 1929 — 29 editions
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Back
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3.72 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 1946 — 43 editions
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Caught
3.56 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 1943 — 29 editions
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Blindness
3.47 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 1926 — 40 editions
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Concluding
3.88 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 1948 — 37 editions
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Nothing
3.70 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1950 — 20 editions
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Doting
3.77 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1952 — 25 editions
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“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green
tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers
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“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
― Henry Green
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“I can't understand why people can't go on just being ordinary to each other even if they are in love.”
― Henry Green
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