Harlan Greene
| Harlan Greene | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1953 Charleston, South Carolina |
| Occupation | novelist, historian, archivist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1980s-present |
| Notable works | What the Dead Remember, The German Officer's Boy |
Harlan Greene is an American writer and historian.[1] He has published both fiction and non-fiction works.[2]
Born in 1953 in Charleston, South Carolina,[3][4] Greene's parents were Holocaust survivors who moved to Charleston after World War II.[1] He also spent several years living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in early adulthood, with his then-partner Olin Jolley.[1]
He won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for his 1991 novel What the Dead Remember,[4] and was nominated for the same award for his 2005 novel The German Officer's Boy.[5]
In addition to his writing, Greene has worked as an archivist for the College of Charleston,[6] including collecting materials relating to Jewish history in the Charleston region.[1]
Openly gay, Greene lives in Charleston with his partner Jonathan Ray.[1]
Works
Fiction
- Why We Never Danced the Charleston (1985, 978-0140082180)
- What the Dead Remember (1991, ISBN 978-0452268654)
- The German Officer's Boy (2005, ISBN 978-0299208103)
Non-fiction
- Charleston: City of Memory (1987, ISBN 978-0933101111)
- Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance (2001, ISBN 978-0820322117)
- Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940 (2003, ISBN 978-0820325187)
- Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865 (2004, ISBN 978-0786417292)
- Cornices of Charleston (2005, ISBN 978-0976717119)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Jameson Currier, "The Boy Who Started a War". The Jewish Daily Forward, May 6, 2005.
- ↑ "Slave Tags Show Dark Glimpse of History". Associated Press, February 21, 2003.
- ↑ Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Contemporary gay American novelists: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1993. ISBN 9780313280191. p. 172.
- 1 2 Sharon Malinowski, Gay & Lesbian Literature, Volume 1. St. James Press, 1994. ISBN 9781558621749. pp. 167, 475.
- ↑ "Lambda Literary Foundation Announces Finalists". Bookselling This Week, March 14, 2006.
- ↑ "High-profile inmate a matter of course for Charleston brig". Knight Ridder Tribune News Service, June 13, 2002.