“as a child I could not bring myself to believe that English was a real language”
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Julien Green
Julien Green, often Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote primarily in French, although he also wrote some works in English. Over a long and prolific career, he authored novels and essays, several plays, and a biography of Francis of Assisi, produced a four-volume autobiography, and for decades maintained a daily journal that he edited and published in…
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culture · American novelist who lived in France · writer · biographer · autobiographer · playwright · also Julien Green, J. F. Green, David Irland, Théophile Delaporte, Julian Green, Green
Born 6 September 1900 · Died 13 August 1998 · Q334952
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2026· 3 entries
“Strange and tense, it is nevertheless compelling, as Dostoevsky”
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“s employer, Southern Cotton Oil Company, allowed him to work in Germany or France, Julien”
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2015· 2 entries
In his later years, Green adopted as his son Éric Jourdan, a gay novelist, who acted as the executor of Green's estate until his own death in 2015.
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Jourdan's executor Tristan Gervais de Lafond, a jurist of some distinction, supported the publication of the unexpurgated text of Green's journals and the first volume appeared in September 2019
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1998· 2 entries
Died 1998-08-13.
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“Um prato rodeado de gente não me tenta.”
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1996· 1 entry
Caused a minor scandal by resigning from the Académie, disavowing any interest in honors and describing himself as "American, exclusively" (americain, exclusivement)
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1993· 2 entries
An American reviewer could write: "Julian Green may be the one most difficult for American readers to place
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Green published–again only in English–a collection of short pieces: The Apprentice Writer: Essays
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1984· 1 entry
Green's personal contribution to the travel genre was published as Paris
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1976· 1 entry
A collection of "articles and lecture notes" written by Green in the U
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1975· 1 entry
The Pleiade library began republishing several volumes of Green's work, an honor rarely accorded a living writer
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Marcel Proust Prize (1974).
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1971· 2 entries
Was the first non-French national to join its ranks
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Career landmark: seat 22 of the Académie française (1971–1996).
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française (1970).
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix national des Lettres (1966).
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1965· 1 entry
And received "hostile" reviews when staged at the Opéra de Paris in 1972
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1963· 1 entry
1964, and 1966, covered the years 1900 to 1922, with the second and third volumes devoted to just the last six of those years
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Prince Pierre Award (1951).
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1947· 1 entry
Worked on a screenplay for a film about Saint Ignatius of Loyola, intended for director Robert Bresson, but he failed to complete it
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1942· 1 entry
Was mobilized and sent to New York City to work at the United States Office of War Information
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1940· 2 entries
Saint-Jean was deputy chief of staff to the French minister of information and his writing had made him a personal enemy of German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop
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(1992), a contemporary account of his flight from France in 1940
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1938· 1 entry
Began publishing his journals, which he edited extensively to suppress accounts of his and others' sexual adventures and opinions he had expressed more freely in private than in public
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded Harper Prize (1929).
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1928· 3 entries
Awarded Paul Flat Prize (1928).
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Awarded Northcliffe Prize (1928).
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Louis Kronenberger wrote: "After six months Julian Green's Avarice House [Mont-Cinère] still remains vivid in the memory of this reviewer
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1924· 1 entry
For many years Green was the companion of Robert de Saint-Jean, a journalist, whom he first met in November 1924.
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1918· 1 entry
Enlisted in the French Army and served as a second lieutenant in an artillery unit until 1919
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1917· 1 entry
Still only 16, he volunteered as an ambulance driver in the American Field Service
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1914· 1 entry
And Green became a Roman Catholic in 1916
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-09-06.
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