Harlan Greene (born June 19, 1953) is an American writer and historian. He has published both fiction and non-fiction works. He won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for his 1991 novel What the Dead Remember.

Born in 1953 in Charleston, South Carolina,^[1][2] Greene's parents were Holocaust survivors who moved to Charleston after World War II.^[3]

Greene is an author and historian.^[3][4] He has published both fiction and non-fiction works.^[4] He won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for his 1991 novel What the Dead Remember,^[2] and was nominated for the same award for his 2005 novel The German Officer's Boy.^[5]

In addition to his writing, Greene has worked as an archivist for the College of Charleston,^[6] including collecting materials relating to Jewish history in the Charleston region.^[3]

Openly gay, Greene spent several years living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in early adulthood, with his then-partner Olin Jolley.^[7][3] Greene and Jolley are featured in the anthology Two Hearts Desire: Gay Couples on their Love, originally published in 1997, and republished in digital format in 2017.^[8] Greene now lives in Charleston with his partner Jonathan Ray.^[3]

• Why We Never Danced the Charleston (1985, 978–0140082180)
• What the Dead Remember (1991, ISBN 978-0452268654)
• The German Officer's Boy (2005, ISBN 978-0299208103)

• Charleston: City of Memory (1987, ISBN 978-0933101111)
• Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance (2001, ISBN 978-0820322117)
• Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940 (2003, ISBN 978-0820325187)
• Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865 (2004, ISBN 978-0786417292)
• Cornices of Charleston (2005, ISBN 978-0976717119)
• The Damned Don't Cry -- They Just Disappear: The Life and Works of Harry Hervey (2018, ISBN 9781611178128)

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