Roger Lancelyn Green
Roger (Gilbert) Lancelyn Green (1918-1987) was a British biographer and children's writer.
He produced retellings of the myths of Greece (Tales of the Greek Heroes, A Tale of Troy) and Egypt, the Norse myths and the stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood for children.
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 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 of the Lewis Carroll Society and helped Morton Cohen to edit Carroll's collected letters.
His son was the writer Richard Lancelyn Green.