GREEN, PAUL

Green, Paul: translation

(1894-1981)

Paul Eliot Green was born in Lillinton, North Carolina, and wrote many one-act plays beginning during his schooling at the University of North Carolina, where he studied with Frederick H. Koch, and at Cornell University. His one-actThe No 'Count Boy(1925) exemplifies the manyfolk dramashe wrote. In 1926, Green's drama of racial conflict in the South,In Abraham's Bosom, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, although the play had already closed. Green's leftist politics, often evident in his plays, frequently focused on racial inequities. From the mid-1920s to World War II, he wrote several critically applauded works, includingThe Field God(1927),The House ofConnelly* (1931),Roll, Sweet Chariot(1934),Hymn to the Rising Sun(1936), the libretto and lyrics for the antiwar musicalJohnny Johnson(1936; with music by Kurt Weill), and a collaboration with Richard Wright* on a stage adaptation of Wright'sNative Son* (1941). In 1937, he wrote the first outdoor drama* (or symphonic drama),The Lost Colony, set on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Green also taught drama at the University of North Carolina.