Julien Green

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French-born American writer who authored several novels (The Dark Journey, The Closed Garden, Moira, Each Man in His Darkness, the Dixie trilogy, etc.), a four-volume autobiography (The Green Paradise, The War at Sixteen, Love in America and Restless Youth) and his famous Diary (in nineteen volumes, 1919-1998). He wrote primarily in French and was the first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française. For many years Green was the companion of Robert de Saint-Jean (1901-1987), a journalist, whom he had met in the 1920s. In his later years Green formally adopted gay fiction writer Éric Jourdan. It was commonly believed he had dual citizenship, but in fact, although born in Paris and writing almost exclusively in the French language, he had never become a French citizen. He died in Paris, France on 13 August 1998. Link to Wikipedia biography