Julien Green was the first American citizen to win membership in the prestigious Académie Française. When he was elected in 1971 to fill the vacancy created by the death of his longtime friend François Mauriac, it was the crowning of a long and productive career as a writer. He also won election to the Académie de Bavière, the Académie Royale de Belgique, the Academy of Arts and Letters, the Academie of Mainz, the Conseil Littéraire of Monaco, and the Légion d'Honneur. He has won the Prix Paul Flat (Académie Française) and the Prix Fémina, 1928, for Adrienne Mesurat (The Closed Garden); the Harper Prize, 1929-1930, for Léviathan; the Harper 125th Anniversary Prize, 1942, for Memories of Happy Days; the Grand Prix Littéraire de Monaco, 1951, for...