Biography
Roger Lancelyn Green was born in 1918 in Norwich, England.
He studied under C. S. Lewis at Merton College, Oxford, where he obtained a B.Litt. degree. He remained close to Lewis until his death in 1963, and holidayed in Greece with Lewis and his wife Joy Gresham just before her death from cancer in 1960. When Lewis started writing the Narnia books in the late 1940s, he suggested that they should be called The Chronicles of Narnia.
Lancelyn Green delivered the 1968 Andrew Lang lecture.
Lancelyn Green lived in Cheshire at Poulton Hall, a manor house that his ancestors had owned for more than 900 years. He died in October 1987 at the age of 68.
His son was the writer Richard Lancelyn Green.
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