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Green Roger Gilbert Lancelyn
(1918—1987)
«King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table»

Roger (Gilbert) Lancelyn Green was a British biographer and children's writer. Lancelyn Green studied under C. S. Lewis at Merton College, Oxford, where he obtained a B.Litt. degree.

Lancelyn Green produced retellings of the myths of Greece (Tales of the Greek Heroes and A Tale of Troy) and Egypt (Tales of Ancient Egypt), as well the Norse myths (Myths of the Norsemen) and the stories of King Arthur (King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table) and Robin Hood (The Adventures of Robin Hood).

He wrote biographies of J. M. Barrie, Andrew Lang and C. S. Lewis. His new edition of selected tales of Hans Christian Andersen contains a superb short biography. He was editor of the Kipling Journal, 1957–79.

Lancelyn Green was particularly interested in Lewis Carroll, publishing several books and articles. His book The Story of Lewis Carroll (1949) led to an invitation from Carroll's nieces to produce an edited version of his diary; this appeared in 1953. It is now known that he never saw the original diaries (now in the British Library), but worked from a transcript censored by Carroll's nieces. He was later a founder and vice-president of the Lewis Carroll Society and helped Morton N. Cohen to edit Carroll's collected letters.

He was a part-time professional actor, 1942–5, and was a member of the Oxford literary group, the Inklings, led by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. He was Deputy Librarian of Merton College, Oxford, 1945–50 and William Nobel Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Liverpool, 1950–2. He was later a member of the Council of the University of Liverpool, (1964–70).

Lancelyn Green delivered the 1968 Andrew Lang lecture.

Czechoslovakia, 1983, Children near window

Great Britain, 2004.02.26, Machynlleth. King Arthur