Harlan Greene (born June 19, 1953) is an American writer and historian. He has published both fiction and non-fiction works. He won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for his 1991 novel What the Dead Remember.
Early life Born in 1953 in Charleston, South Carolina,Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Contemporary gay American novelists: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1993. . p. 172.Sharon Malinowski, Gay & Lesbian Literature, Volume 1. St. James Press, 1994. . pp. 167, 475. Greene's parents were Holocaust survivors who moved to Charleston after World War II.
Career Greene is an author and historian.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. He has published both fiction and non-fiction works. He won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for his 1991 novel What the Dead Remember, and was nominated for the same award for his 2005 novel The German Officer's Boy."Lambda Literary Foundation Announces Finalists". Bookselling This Week, March 14, 2006.
In addition to his writing, Greene has worked as an archivist for the College of Charleston,"High-profile inmate a matter of course for Charleston brig". Knight Ridder Tribune News Service, June 13, 2002. including collecting materials relating to Jewish history in the Charleston region.
Personal life Openly gay, Greene spent several years living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in early adulthood, with his then-partner Olin Jolley. Greene and Jolley are featured in the anthology Two Hearts Desire: Gay Couples on their Love, originally published in 1997, and republished in digital format in 2017. Greene now lives in Charleston with his partner Jonathan Ray.
Works
Fiction Why We Never Danced the Charleston (1985, 978–0140082180) What the Dead Remember (1991, ) The German Officer's Boy (2005, )
Non-fiction Charleston: City of Memory (1987, ) Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance (2001, ) Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940 (2003, ) Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865 (2004, ) Cornices of Charleston (2005, ) The Damned Don't Cry -- They Just Disappear: The Life and Works of Harry Hervey (2018, )
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