Julien Green

Julien Green was born in Paris on 6 September 1900, to American parents from the South of the United States. Converted to Catholicism as a teenager, he served during the First World War in the ambulances of the American Field Service, then studied from 1919 to 1922 at the University of Virginia. Raised in French, he wrote almost all his work in that language and kept a diary for most of his life. In 1971 he was the first member of the Académie française not to hold French nationality. He died on 13 August 1998.

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