Harlan Greene
Harlan Greene is the prize-winning author of three novels, Why We Never Danced the Charleston (1984), What the Dead Remember (1991), and The German Officer’s Boy (2005).
Greene is considered an authority on the history of Charleston, South Carolina, and has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited several nonfiction works on the subject. These works include: Charleston: City of Memory (1987); Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance (2001); Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940 (2003); Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865 (2008); and, The Real Rainbow Row: Explorations in Charleston’s LGBTQ History (2022).
As an archivist and historian, he has worked to save and interpret the literary heritage of the state.
Greene is considered an authority on the history of Charleston, South Carolina, and has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited several nonfiction works on the subject. These works include: Charleston: City of Memory (1987); Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance (2001); Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940 (2003); Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865 (2008); and, The Real Rainbow Row: Explorations in Charleston’s LGBTQ History (2022).
As an archivist and historian, he has worked to save and interpret the literary heritage of the state.