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Julian Green was born in 1900 of American parents in Paris, where he spent most of his life until his death in August 1998. Novelist, biographer, playwright, critic, and first non-French national elected to the Académie Française (1971), he was greatly attached to his American nationality and to his roots in Georgia. A large section of his writing constitutes a quest for identity by an American living abroad in France. His most famous works include The Distant Land (1991) and The Stars of the South (1996), published by Marion Boyars; The Closed Garden (1928) and Memories of Happy Days (1942), published by Harper & Brothers; Each in His Own Darkness, Pantheon Books (1960); God's Fool: The Life of Francis of Assisi, HarperOne (1987); and most recently The Other Sleep with illustrations by Gustav Klimt, Pushkin Press (2002).
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