Biography
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of 3 children, brother Gregory Lawrence Green, and sister Renée Green (artist, writer, and filmmaker). Father Friendly Green, an electrician, and mother Gloria Green, a music teacher, later moved the family to Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland when Green was at the age of 7.
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“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)