1000 Years of Irish Prose: The Literary Revival

David H. Greene was born in Boston, Massachusetts on November 4, 1913. He received a B. A. in 1936, a M. A. in 1937, and a Ph.D. in 1939, all in literature from Harvard University. During World War II, he served as a Navy intelligence officer in Britain. After the war, he joined the English faculty at New York University. He retired in 1979, but show more continued to lecture until 1985. He was a leading scholar of Irish literature and along with Edward M. Stephens wrote the book J. M. Synge, 1871 - 1909 about the playwright who was at the forefront of the Irish literary renaissance. He also edited or co-edited An Anthology of Irish Literature, One Thousand Years of Irish Prose, and The Matter with Ireland. He died from pneumonia on July 9, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) show less