Henry Green (Author) Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born in 1905 near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire England he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become managing director of an engineering business writing novels in his spare time. His first novel Blindness (1926) was written whilst he was still at school and published whilst he was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son and during the Second World War served in the London Fire Brigade. Between 1926 and 1952 he wrote nine novels Blindness Living Party Going Caught Loving Back Concluding Nothing and Doting and a memoir Pack My Bag. Henry Green died in December 1973 Sebastian Faulks (Introducer) Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong part of his French trilogy and Human Traces the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London. . Language: English