Julia Boynton Green

Julia Boynton Green (, Boynton; May 25, 1861 – July 10, 1957) was an American author and poet. She is remembered as an "anti-modernist who railed against free verse". She was the author of a volume of poems entitled Lines and Interlines, as well as two other books, This Enchanted Coast: Verse on California Themes (1928) and Noonmark (1936).

Early life and education Julia P. Boynton was born in South Byron, New York, May 25, 1861. Her father was James T. Boynton (d. 1889). She had at least one sibling, a sister, Mrs. A. H. Green. She was a descendant of Nathanial Greene, major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. (Nathanial Greene's family branch dropped the final e from the surname.) Their three children were Gladys, Boynton, and Norman.

She published a second book of poetry, This Enchanted Coast: Verse on California Themes, in 1928 in Los Angeles. Noonmark was published in Redlands, in 1936. In 1941, she received an honorable mention from the Los Angeles branch of the League of American Penwomen, as well as a prize from the national contest of American Penwomen.

Death and legacy Julia P. Boynton Green died July 10, 1957, and is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Her papers and three unpublished books are collected at the Huntington Library.

The L. Worthington Green/Julia Boynton Home, built in 1911, received the 1986 Heritage Award from the Redlands Area Historical Society.

Selected works By Julia P. Boynton Lines and Interlines, 1887

By Julia Boynton Green This Enchanted Coast: Verse on California Themes, 1928 Noonmark, 1936