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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2024-10-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000454b.htm person Greener Herbert Leslie AACR2 13 February 1900 8 December 1974 Place of Birth Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa Place of Death Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Archaeologist Writer Journalist Educator Herbert Leslie Greener was a man of many talents. He was a journalist, author of both adult's and children's books, an artist and illustrator, and a gifted epigraphist. He was also a teacher of creative writing for Adult Education in Tasmania - an organization he was Foundation Director of. While a prisoner-of-war in Changi camp Greener illustrated the children's book The Happiness Box which fellow prisoner David Griffin had written as a Christmas present for the children in the camp. Hebert Greener made numerous trips to Egypt throughout his life, where he worked mainly for the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in Luxor. He also wrote nine books, many of which were based on his war or Egyptian experiences.

After graduating from England's Royal Military College (1918), Greener spent five years as an officer in the Indian Army. This was followed by some years working as a journalist and artist in New Zealand and Australia. Greener moved to Paris in 1927 to study art then went to Egypt where he taught art and French at Victoria College in Alexandria. In 1936 he returned to Australia and took up journalism again. During the second world war Greener enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and was sent to Malaya as captain and divisional intelligence officer of the 8th Division (1941). Twelve months after arriving he was captured by the Japanese and sent to the Changi Prisoner-of-War Camp in Singapore.

When released from Changi and back in Australia, Greener took up journalism again and began writing two books about his war experience (He Lived in My Shoes & No Time to Look Back). He also became Foundation Director of the Adult Education in Tasmania and taught creative writing. In 1954 he resigned from that organization to concentrate on freelance writing and broadcasting. He returned to Egypt and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in Luxor to continue his epigraphic work. Later he worked for the Ikhnaton Temple project run by the University of Pennsylvania. He returned to Australia, and Tasmania in 1968.

1918 1918 Education - Royal Military College at Sandhurst, UK c. 1918 c. 1922 Military service - Officer in the Indian Army 1927 1928 Education - Art studies at the Académie Julian in Paris 1931 c. 1935 Career position - Epigraphist at Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in Luxor, Egypt 1936 1958 Life event - Moved to Australia (Sydney) 1940 1945 Military service - War service with the Australian Imperial Force 1942 c. 1945 Life event - Prisoner of war at Changi, Singapore 1945 1945 Career position - Returned to Australia and transferred to the Reserve of Officers c. 1945 c. 1949 Career position - Journalist in Sydney 1947 1947 Career event - The Happiness Book, published in Sydney 1948 1948 Career event - He Lived in My Shoes, published 1949 1954 Career position - Foundation Director of Adult Education in Australia 1950 1950 Career event - No Time to Look Back, published in New York 1951 1951 Career event - Moon Ahead, published in New York 1957 1957 Career event - Wizard Boatman of the Nile, published in London 1957 1957 Award - Commonwealth Literary Fellowship 1958 1967 Career position - Epigraphist with the Epigraphic Survey Department of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in Luxor, Egypt 1962 1962 Career event - High Dam Over Nubia, published in London 1966 1966 Career event - The Discovery of Egypt, published in London 1968 1968 Career position - Chairman, Tasmanian Historical Society 1971 1971 Career event - Ross Bridge and the Sculpture of Daniel Herbert, written with Norman Laird, published in Tasmania 1975 1975 Career event - Tea for a Stranger, posthumously published 1976 1976 Career event - Discovering Egypt with Leslie Greener, posthumously published in Tasmania

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 Greener, Herbert Leslie (1900-1974)

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 'Greener, Herbert Leslie', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Greener, Herbert Leslie Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Greener, Herbert Leslie (1900-1974), journalist, author and Egyptologist Giordano, Margaret Greener, Herbert Leslie (1900-1974), journalist, author and Egyptologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1996 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel John Ritchie 322 Herbert Leslie Greener - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Herbert Leslie Greener - Records MS 5925 1908 - 1974 Correspondence and personal and family papers; manuscripts; archaeological papers and papers concerning Tasmanian history and monuments; lectures, talks, autobiographical material, financial papers, notebooks, diaries and photographs [2.5 m, MS 5925]. 2.5 m