Julien Green | |
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,_portrait_by_Carl_van_Vechten.jpg) Green in 1933, photograph by Carl van Vechten | |
| Born | Julian Hartridge Green 6 September 1900 Paris, France |
| Died | 13 August 1998 (aged 97) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Sankt Egid Church, Klagenfurt, Austria |
| Pen name | Théophile Delaporte David Irland |
| Occupation | Novelist, diarist and essayist |
| Nationality | American |
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| Partner | Robert de Saint-Jean |
| Children | Éric Jourdan (adopted) |
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Julien Green (originally "Julian Hartridge Green", 6 September 1900 – 13 August 1998) often Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote mostly in French and only occasionally in English. Over a long and prolific career, he authored novels and essays, several plays, and a biography of Francis of Assisi, produced a four-volume autobiography, and for decades maintained a daily journal that he edited and published in nineteen volumes. The posthumous publication of the unexpurgated text of his journals presented a different version of his personality and sexuality, revealed details of the lives of many of his prominent contemporaries, and documented the gay subculture of 20th-century France.
When elected to membership in the Académie française in 1971, he was the first non-French national to join its ranks. He was the recipient of many awards and one of the few writers to have his collected works published in Gallimard's Pleiade library during his lifetime.[1]
- ^ Nicholls, Richard E. (18 August 1998). "Julian Green, an Expatriate American Lionized as a French Literary Figure, Dies at 97". New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2024.