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Henry Green
Henry Green was the ''nom de plume'' of Henry Vincent Yorke (29 October 1905 – 13 December 1973), an English author best remembered for the novels ''Party Going'' and ''Loving''.
== Life and work ==
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.〔(Molten Treasure (1949)- TIME )〕 Green grew up in Gloucestershire and attended Eton College, where he became friends with fellow pupil Anthony Powell〔("Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green" – Review, ''Insight on the News'' )〕 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〔(West Midlands Literary Heritage site )〕 and returned to Birmingham to engage in his family business.〔〔("James Wood on Henry Green" | Article |''Times Literary Supplement'' )〕 He started by working with the ordinary workers on the factory floor of his family's factory, which produced beer-bottling machines, and later became the managing director. During this time he gained the experience to write ''Living'', his second novel, which he worked on during 1927 and 1928. In 1929, he married his second cousin, the Hon. Adelaide Biddulph, also known as 'Dig'. They were both great-grandchildren of the 1st Baron Leconfield. Their son Sebastian was born in 1934.〔''Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green'' by Jeremy Treglown, 2000〕 In 1940, Green published ''Pack My Bag'', which he regarded as a nearly-accurate autobiography.〔(''The Paris Review'', The Art of Fiction No. 22, Summer 1958 No. 19 )〕 During World War II Green served as a fireman in the Auxiliary Fire Service〔 and these wartime experiences are echoed in his novel ''Caught''; they were also a strong influence on his subsequent novel, ''Back''.
Green's last published novel was ''Doting'' (1952); this was the end of his writing career. In his later years, until his death in 1973, he became increasingly focused on studies of the Ottoman Empire, and became alcoholic and reclusive.〔〔David Lodge, "Henry Green: A Writer's Writer's Writer", in ''The Practice of Writing'' (London: Vintage, 2011), pp. 113-122.〕 Politically, Green was a traditional Tory throughout his life.〔( ''The Sewanee Review'', Vol. 100, No. 1 (Winter, 1992), pp. 114 )〕
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