Green, Roger Lancelyn (1918-1987)

English author. His works included a critical biography of Andrew Lang (1946); Tellers of Tales (1965; accounts of the writers of children's books); an edition of The Diaries of Lewis Carroll (1954); the anthology A Century of Humorous Verse (1959); and a great number of books for young readers, including adventure stories, fairy fantasies, and old legends retold, such as King Arthur (1953), and Robin Hood (1956).

He was born in Norwich, Norfolk, and educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he was deputy librarian 1945-50. He was a research fellow at Liverpool University 1950-52.