Anne Green (born 1891,

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, d. 1979,

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) was an American writer and translator, the sister of

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. 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

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, before her parents moved to

, where her brother Julien was born. She and her brother both participated in

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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

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, 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'',

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(1948) (published as ''Mes Jours Évanouis'', literal translation, ''My Vanished Days'', Plon, Paris) (1951) (translated from the English by Marie Canavaggia) *''La Porte des songes,'' 1969.

Translator

*'' A Certain Smile'', Francoise Sagan (1956) *''The Green Paradise: Autobiography'', Volume 1 (1900-1916), Julian Green.

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(1992), *''Each Man in His Darkness'', Julian Green. (reissued 1996) *''Bases Verities: Prose and Poetry'', Charles Peguy (co-translated with Julien).

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(1945) *''Diary, 1928-1957'', Julian Green. (selected by Kurt Wolff) (1964)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Anne American expatriates in France Writers from Savannah, Georgia 1891 births 1979 deaths 20th-century American translators 20th-century American women writers American writers in French