Henry
Green
born Oct. 29, 1905, near Tewkesbury,
Gloucestershire, Eng.
died Dec. 13, 1973, London
novelist and industrialist whose
sophisticated satires mirrored the changing
class structure in post-World War II English
society. After completing his education at
Eton and Oxford, he entered the family
business, an engineering firm in Birmingham;
he worked his way up to become the firm’s
managing director in London. During this
time he produced his laconically titled
social comedies, Blindness (1926), Living
(1929), Party Going (1939), Caught (1943),
Loving (1945), Back (1946), Concluding
(1948), Nothing (1950), and Doting (1952).
Underlying the pleasant surfaces of the
novels are disturbing and enigmatic
perceptions. An early autobiography, Pack My
Bag, was published in 1943.
