Anne Green

Portrait of Anne Green by Carl Van Vechten.

Anne Green (born 11 November 1891, Savannah, Georgia, died 30 December 1979, Draveil, Essonne) was an American writer and translator, the sister of Julien Green. While a child, Green's parents moved to France, where her father, ruined by a financial crisis and poor investments, came to settle. The family lived for a few years in Le Havre before moving to Paris, where her brother Julien was born. She and her brother both participated in World War I, in which she volunteered as an ambulance driver.

Her best known work is With Much Love (1948), a fictionalized account of her childhood. She wrote fifteen novels in English and nine volumes of fiction in French. She also translated fiction and non-fiction from English to French and from French to English, sometimes in collaboration with her brother.

Works

Author

Anglophone phase

  • The Selbys, Dutton, 1930
  • Reader, I Married Him, Dutton, 1931
  • Marietta, Dutton, 1932
  • A Marriage of Convenience, Dutton, 1933
  • Fools Rush In, Dutton, 1934
  • That Fellow Perceval, Dutton, 1935
  • Winchester House, Dutton, 1936
  • 16 Rue Cortambert, Dutton, 1937
  • Paris, Dutton, 1938
  • The Silent Duchess, Harper, 1939
  • The Delamer Curse, Harper, 1940
  • The Lady in the Mask, Harper, 1942
  • Just before Dawn, Harper, 1943
  • The Old Lady, Harper, 1947
  • With Much Love, memoir, Harper, 1948
    French translation by Marie Canavaggia: Mes jours évanouis, Plon, 1951, reissued Le Livre de Poche, 1974 — literally My Vanished Days

Francophone phase

The publication of Green's memoir and homage to her mother, With Much Love, marked something of a turning point, with all her subsequent work written and published in French.

  • Le Goret, short stories, Plon, 1954, reissued Le Livre de Poche, 1977
  • Adeline, Corrêa, 1954
  • La Lanterne magique, written with Didier Mesnil, Émile-Paul, 1956
  • Le Vestiaire des anges, Denoël, 1958
  • L'Or et l'Argent, Stock, 1962
  • La Fille du grand marais, Albin Michel, 1964
  • La Bonne Aventure, Albin Michel, 1966
  • Corinne et le prince persan, Albin Michel, 1967
  • La Porte des songes, Plon, 1969

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References

  1. ↑ Michael O'Dwyer, "Georgia History in Fiction: The Quest for Identity in the Civil War Novels of Julien Green", Georgia Historical Society, 1998, p. 578.
  2. ↑ Archives en ligne de Paris, 7th arrondissement, 1980, transcription of death certificate number 77, shelfmark 7D 288, view 8/31.
  3. ↑ Liukkonen, Petri. "Julien Green". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 14 April 2014.
  4. ↑ Papers of Julien Green 1941-1944. (Archival material, 1941). [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 647872630.