English novelist and industrialist. His mother was the daughter of Henry Wyndham, 2d Baron Leconfield, his father was an industrialist. In 1929 Green married second cousin Adelaide Mary (called Dig), the elder daughter of Lord Biddulph. They had one son, Sebastian Yorke, who was the first husband of novelist Emma Tennant.
Henry Green is the pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke, 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 the firm’s managing director in London. During this time he produced his laconically titled social comedies, Blindness (1926), Living (1929), Party Going (1939), Caught (1943), Loving (1945), Back (1946), Concluding (1948), Nothing (1950), and Doting (1952). Underlying the pleasant surfaces of the novels are disturbing and enigmatic perceptions. An early autobiography, Pack My Bag, was published in 1940. This memoir was reissued in 1992 by New Directions books, with an introduction by his son Sebastian Yorke. [Adapted from Encyclopedia Britannica online.]
Green was a classmate at Eton and life-long friend of the English novelist Anthony Powell and is described at length in Powell's memoir To Keep the Ball Rolling (University of Chicago Press, 1983).
Green's idiosyncratic style was heralded by a broad range of modern novelists. Brooke Allen's study entitled "Reading Henry Green" may be found in The New Criterion, March 1993 issue. Jeremy Treglowen's (unauthorized) biography of Green entitled Romancing: The Life and World of Henry Green was published by Faber and Faber in 2000. Allen's review of Treglowen's biography entitled "The Richness of the Moment" appeared in the March 2001 issue of The Atlantic. Leo Robson discusses Henry Green's greatness as a writer in his New Yorker article "The Novelist of Human Unknowability," published Oct. 17, 2016. Green and Terry Southern collaborated in advance and later published an interview: "Henry Green, interviewed by Terry Southern," The Paris Review, Issue 19, Summer 1958 (The Art of Fiction No. 22).
Henry Green is the pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke, 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 the firm’s managing director in London. During this time he produced his laconically titled social comedies, Blindness (1926), Living (1929), Party Going (1939), Caught (1943), Loving (1945), Back (1946), Concluding (1948), Nothing (1950), and Doting (1952). Underlying the pleasant surfaces of the novels are disturbing and enigmatic perceptions. An early autobiography, Pack My Bag, was published in 1940. This memoir was reissued in 1992 by New Directions books, with an introduction by his son Sebastian Yorke. [Adapted from Encyclopedia Britannica online.]
Green was a classmate at Eton and life-long friend of the English novelist Anthony Powell and is described at length in Powell's memoir To Keep the Ball Rolling (University of Chicago Press, 1983).
Green's idiosyncratic style was heralded by a broad range of modern novelists. Brooke Allen's study entitled "Reading Henry Green" may be found in The New Criterion, March 1993 issue. Jeremy Treglowen's (unauthorized) biography of Green entitled Romancing: The Life and World of Henry Green was published by Faber and Faber in 2000. Allen's review of Treglowen's biography entitled "The Richness of the Moment" appeared in the March 2001 issue of The Atlantic. Leo Robson discusses Henry Green's greatness as a writer in his New Yorker article "The Novelist of Human Unknowability," published Oct. 17, 2016. Green and Terry Southern collaborated in advance and later published an interview: "Henry Green, interviewed by Terry Southern," The Paris Review, Issue 19, Summer 1958 (The Art of Fiction No. 22).
English novelist and industrialist. His mother was the daughter of Henry Wyndham, 2d Baron Leconfield, his father was an industrialist. In 1929 Green married second cousin Adelaide Mary (called Dig), the elder daughter of Lord Biddulph. They had one son, Sebastian Yorke, who was the first husband of novelist Emma Tennant.
Henry Green is the pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke, 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 the firm’s managing director in London. During this time he produced his laconically titled social comedies, Blindness (1926), Living (1929), Party Going (1939), Caught (1943), Loving (1945), Back (1946), Concluding (1948), Nothing (1950), and Doting (1952). Underlying the pleasant surfaces of the novels are disturbing and enigmatic perceptions. An early autobiography, Pack My Bag, was published in 1940. This memoir was reissued in 1992 by New Directions books, with an introduction by his son Sebastian Yorke. [Adapted from Encyclopedia Britannica online.]
Green was a classmate at Eton and life-long friend of the English novelist Anthony Powell and is described at length in Powell's memoir To Keep the Ball Rolling (University of Chicago Press, 1983).
Green's idiosyncratic style was heralded by a broad range of modern novelists. Brooke Allen's study entitled "Reading Henry Green" may be found in The New Criterion, March 1993 issue. Jeremy Treglowen's (unauthorized) biography of Green entitled Romancing: The Life and World of Henry Green was published by Faber and Faber in 2000. Allen's review of Treglowen's biography entitled "The Richness of the Moment" appeared in the March 2001 issue of The Atlantic. Leo Robson discusses Henry Green's greatness as a writer in his New Yorker article "The Novelist of Human Unknowability," published Oct. 17, 2016. Green and Terry Southern collaborated in advance and later published an interview: "Henry Green, interviewed by Terry Southern," The Paris Review, Issue 19, Summer 1958 (The Art of Fiction No. 22).
Henry Green is the pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke, 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 the firm’s managing director in London. During this time he produced his laconically titled social comedies, Blindness (1926), Living (1929), Party Going (1939), Caught (1943), Loving (1945), Back (1946), Concluding (1948), Nothing (1950), and Doting (1952). Underlying the pleasant surfaces of the novels are disturbing and enigmatic perceptions. An early autobiography, Pack My Bag, was published in 1940. This memoir was reissued in 1992 by New Directions books, with an introduction by his son Sebastian Yorke. [Adapted from Encyclopedia Britannica online.]
Green was a classmate at Eton and life-long friend of the English novelist Anthony Powell and is described at length in Powell's memoir To Keep the Ball Rolling (University of Chicago Press, 1983).
Green's idiosyncratic style was heralded by a broad range of modern novelists. Brooke Allen's study entitled "Reading Henry Green" may be found in The New Criterion, March 1993 issue. Jeremy Treglowen's (unauthorized) biography of Green entitled Romancing: The Life and World of Henry Green was published by Faber and Faber in 2000. Allen's review of Treglowen's biography entitled "The Richness of the Moment" appeared in the March 2001 issue of The Atlantic. Leo Robson discusses Henry Green's greatness as a writer in his New Yorker article "The Novelist of Human Unknowability," published Oct. 17, 2016. Green and Terry Southern collaborated in advance and later published an interview: "Henry Green, interviewed by Terry Southern," The Paris Review, Issue 19, Summer 1958 (The Art of Fiction No. 22).
Inscription
Henry Vincent Yorke 1905-1973. Dig, his wife, The Hon. Adele Mary, 1900-1985.
As these birds would go where so where would this child go?
This inscription on Green's gravestone is a quotation from his novel entitled Living (1929).
