Roger l green biography

Entry updated 9 September 2024. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.

(1918-1987) UK scholar, critic, translator (from classical Greek) and author, with a special interest in Fantasy, much of his fiction comprising retellings of traditional material for young readers.

Tellers of Tales (1948) [for expansions of this title see Checklist below] is an invaluable early companion to this literature.

Roger l green biography

He was a member of the Inklings group, and among his many works those most relevant to sf studies concern his university tutor, fellow Inklings member C S Lewis: C.S. Lewis (1963) and C.S. Lewis: A Biography (1974) with Walter Hooper (1931-2020), for which he was awarded the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in 1975.

Into Other Worlds: Space-Flight in Fiction, from Lucian to Lewis (1957) is one of the earlier books on sf, but is primarily pitched at a rather trivial anecdotal level. Andrew Lang (1946) throws light on an author whose relationship to sf has been almost forgotten (see