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Henry Green
1905–1973
Best remembered for the novels Living, Party Going, and Loving, this quietly original English writer turned everyday speech and social observation into something sharp, funny, and haunting. He also spent much of his life working in his family's engineering business, which gave his fiction an unusually close feel for class, labor, and ordinary routine.
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Blindness
by Henry Green
About the author
Born Henry Vincent Yorke in 1905 near Tewkesbury, he published under the name Henry Green and became one of the distinctive English novelists of the 20th century. He was educated at Eton and went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, but left university without taking a degree and entered the family engineering firm instead.
That double life mattered. Alongside his work as an industrialist, he wrote nine novels and a memoir, building a reputation for precise, stripped-down prose and an ear for the rhythms of conversation. Among his best-known books are Living (1929), Party Going (1939), and Loving (1945), works admired for their wit, their subtle treatment of class, and the way they make ordinary scenes feel charged with feeling.
He died in London in 1973. Though never the most famous writer of his generation, he has remained deeply admired by readers and critics for a style that is both elusive and intensely alive.