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Harlan Greene
Born1953
Charleston, South Carolina
Occupationnovelist, historian, archivist
NationalityAmerican
Period1980s-present
Notable worksWhat 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. ^ a b c d e Jameson Currier, "The Boy Who Started a War". The Jewish Daily Forward, May 6, 2005.
  2. ^ "Slave Tags Show Dark Glimpse of History". Associated Press, February 21, 2003.
  3. ^ Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Contemporary gay American novelists: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1993. ISBN 9780313280191. p. 172.
  4. ^ a b Sharon Malinowski, Gay & Lesbian Literature, Volume 1. St. James Press, 1994. ISBN 9781558621749. pp. 167, 475.
  5. ^ "Lambda Literary Foundation Announces Finalists". Bookselling This Week, March 14, 2006.
  6. ^ "High-profile inmate a matter of course for Charleston brig". Knight Ridder Tribune News Service, June 13, 2002.