Horace Green

Born in 1885 and dying in 1943, Horace Green was an American writer whose surviving reputation rests largely on The Log of a Noncombatant (1915). Contemporary editions of that book identify him as a staff correspondent for the New York Evening Post and a special correspondent for the Boston Journal, giving his war writing a direct reporter’s perspective.

The Log of a Noncombatant is a personal account of the first phase of World War I in Belgium, written from the viewpoint of someone witnessing events rather than fighting in them. That angle helps explain the book’s lasting appeal: it offers history at street level, with the immediacy of journalism and the reflection of memoir.

Library and catalog records also show that Green wrote several books of a historical nature. Even where details of his wider life are hard to confirm, his writing stands out for making major events feel close, human, and readable.