Lawrence G. Green

Lawrence George Green Eschewing any grandiose view of his literature and his way of life, he wrote for the layman and general reading entertainment as a raconteur. As such his writings, though well populated with researched fact through his wide travels and many hours of research in the South African and British archives,

Early life and education Green was born in Kimberley, Cape Colony, the only son of George Alfred Lawrence Green (a newspaper editor who went on to become a member of parliament in the first Union of South Africa and editor-in-chief of the Cape Argus) and Katherine (née Bell). He was educated at private schools in Grahamstown and Cape Town, completing his secondary education at South African College Schools. a fact corroborated by Yates-Benyon. Green's reminiscences in Where Men Still Dream: The life and memories, travels and encounters of a South African writer (1945) and When the Journey's Over (1972) come as close to autobiographical as his long writing career allowed.

Howard Timmins, previous head of the Cape Town-based but now defunct Howard Timmins & Co. publishing firm, was also ranked as close friend of the author. Timmins was responsible for the bulk of the writer’s book publishing in South Africa. He and Haigh similarly, in tributes to Green contained in The Best of Lawrence Green, a book of collected writings and reminisces of Green, edited by Haigh, alluded to the author’s reserve and shunning of publicity.

Works Non-fiction – Original titles The Coast of Treasure, 1933, Putnam, UK Great African Mysteries, 1935, Stanley Paul, UK Secret Africa, 1936, Stanley Paul, UK The Coast of Diamonds, 1937, Stanley Paul, UK Strange Africa, 1938, Stanley Paul, UK Old Africa Untamed, 1940, Stanley Paul, UK Where Men Still Dream, 1945, Howard Timmins, SA So Few Are Free, 1946, Howard Timmins, SA Tavern of the Seas, 1947, Howard Timmins, SA To The River's End, 1948, Howard Timmins, SA In The Land of the Afternoon, 1949, Howard Timmins, SA At Daybreak for the Isles, 1950, Howard Timmins, SA Growing Lovely, Growing Old, 1951, Howard Timmins, SA Lords of the Last Frontier, 1952, Howard Timmins, SA Under a Sky Like Flame, 1954, Howard Timmins, SA Karoo, 1955, Howard Timmins, SA There's a Secret Hid Away, 1956, Howard Timmins, SA Beyond the City Lights, 1957, Howard Timmins, SA South African Beachcomber, 1958, Howard Timmins, SA These Wonders to Behold, 1959, Howard Timmins, SA Eight Bells at Salamander, 1960, Howard Timmins, SA Great North Road, 1961, Howard Timmins, SA Something Rich and Strange, 1962, Howard Timmins, SA A Decent Fellow Doesn't Work, 1963, Howard Timmins, SA I Heard the Old Men Say, 1964, Howard Timmins, SA Almost Forgotten Never Told, 1965, Howard Timmins, SA Thunder on the Blaauwberg, 1966, Howard Timmins, SA On Wings of Fire, 1967, Howard Timmins, SA Full Many a Glorious Morning, 1968, Howard Timmins, SA Harbours of Memory, 1969, Howard Timmins, SA A Giant in Hiding, 1970, Howard Timmins, SA A Taste of the South- Easter, 1971, Howard Timmins, SA When the Journeys Over, 1972, Howard Timmins, SA

Non-fiction – Republished in UK under different titles White Man's Grave, 1954, Stanley Paul, UK Panther Head, 1955, Stanley Paul, UK The Drums of Time, 1956, Stanley Paul, UK Old Africa's Last Secrets, 1961, Putnam, UK Islands Time Forgot, 1962, Putnam, UK Like Diamond Blazing, 1967, Robert Hale, UK

Non-fiction – Translated into other languages

Min Mense is Vry (So Few Are Free), 1948, Malherbe (Afrikaans) Karoo (Karoo), 1964, Malherbe (Afrikaans) Ahol Megállt Az Idő (Islands Time Forgot), 1964, T/K Budapest (Magyar) Последние тайны старой Африки (Old Africa's Last Secrets), 1966, Mysl' (Russian), USSR Острова, не тронутые временем (Islands Time Forgot), 1972, Glavnaya redaktsia vostochnoi literatury (Russian), USSR Тайны Берега Скелетов (Mysteries of the Skeleton Coast), 1993, Misteria (Russian), Russia

Non-fiction – Articles for magazines Bottle Messages from the Sea, Adventure, 1 July 1929 Captain Flynn’s Chart, Sea Stories, Oct 1929 Diamond Camp, The Passing Show, 20 April 1935 Fishing for Cable, The Wide World Magazine, Mar 1939 Flaw in the System, Excitement, Aug 1930 The Ghost Drink, Sea Stories, Dec 1929 In the Fog, Sea Stories, Nov 1929 Monkey Folk of Africa, Adventure, 15 February 1929 Off Ascension, Sea Stories, Jun 1930 Over the Horizon, Sea Stories, Jul 1929 The Schooner’s Secret, Sea Stories, Apr 1930 Sea Mecca, Sea Stories, Aug 1929 A Secret of the Desert, Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine, Sep 1926 Smelling Danger, Sea Stories, May 1930 Virgin Peak, The Saturday Evening Post, 6 December 1947, Argosy (UK) Apr 1948 Inland fleets of Africa, S.A. Saturday Book, 1948.

Technical

Author’s Post-War Guide, 1947, Allen & Unwin