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Anne Green (born 1891,
Savannah, Georgia
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, d. 1979,
Paris
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) was an American writer and translator, the sister of
Julien Green
Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998) was an American writer who authored several novels (''The Dark Journey'', ''The Closed Garden'', ''Moira'', ''Each Man in His Darkness'', the ''Dixie'' trilogy, etc.), a four-volume autobiog ...
. While a child, Green's parents moved to France, where her father, ruined by a financial crisis and poor investments, came to settle. She spent her childhood in
Le Havre
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, before her parents moved to
Paris
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, where her brother Julien was born. She and her brother
both participated in
World War I
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, in which she volunteered as an ambulance driver.
Her best known work is the 1948 ''With Much Love'', a fictionalized account of her childhood memories. She wrote fifteen novels and several volumes of short stories, most in her native English. She collaborated with her brother Julien in translating works by other authors, such as
Charles Péguy
Charles Pierre Péguy (; 7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism. By 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing b ...
, as well as his own works.
Bibliography
Author
*''The Selbys,'' 1930.
*''Reader, I Married Him,'' 1931.
*''Marietta,'' 1932.
*''A Marriage of Convenience,'' 1933.
*''Fools Rush in,'' 1934.
*''That Fellow Perceval,'' 1935.
*''Winchester House,'' 1936.
*''16 Rue Cortambert,'' 1937.
*''The Silent Duchess,'' 1939.
*''The Delamer Curse,'' 1940.
*''Just before Dawn,'' 1943.
*''With Much Love'',
Harper & Row
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History
J. & J. Harper (1817–1833)
James Harper and his brother John, printers by training, started their book publishin ...
(1948) (published as ''Mes Jours Évanouis'', literal translation, ''My Vanished Days'',
Plon, Paris) (1951) (translated from the English by
Marie Canavaggia
Marie Canavaggia, (March 1896 – September 30, 1976) was a professional French translator and, for 25 years, the literary secretary of the writer and pamphleteer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Early life and family
Canavaggia was born in Limoges, Fr ...
)
*''La Porte des songes,'' 1969.
Translator
*''
A Certain Smile
''A Certain Smile'' was originally published in French as ''Un certain sourire'' by the Paris publisher Juillard in 1956. It was the second novel by Françoise Sagan and was written in two months. Two translations into English then followed in 195 ...
'',
Francoise Sagan (1956)
*''
The Green Paradise: Autobiography, Volume 1 (1900-1916)'', Julien Green.
Marion Boyars Publishers
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Marion Boyars died in 1999, her daughter Catheryn Kilg ...
(1992),
*''Each Man in His Darkness'', Julien Green. (reissued 1996)
*''Bases Verities: Prose and Poetry'', Charles Peguy (co-translated with Julien).
Pantheon Books
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(1945)
*''Diary, 1928-1957'', Julien Green. (selected by
Kurt Wolff) (1964)
References
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American expatriates in France
Writers from Savannah, Georgia
1891 births
1979 deaths
20th-century translators
20th-century American women writers
American writers in French