Frank Armstrong Green

Frank Armstrong Green 76 passed on July 25, 2021

Born to Frances Lucille Armstrong Green and William Fischer Green  August 27,1944.

He is survived by his fiancee Sandra Vontz, brother Robert Clyde Green, niece Amy Emling, grand niece Rachel, and grand nephew Jack.

Graduated from The University of the South  Sewanee, Tennessee.

Served 4 years in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War.

Member of San Jose Episcopal Church  Jacksonville, Florida.

Frank was founder of Bard Society, the oldest writers’ group in Northeast Florida, lasting five decades.

Local and national writers had their skills honed at meetings of the Bard Society, including Steve Berry and David Poyer.

As stated by Howard Denson, a friend and colleague, Frank's pursuit of well crafted writing led him through the slush piles of the Sewanee Review

to the home of Catherine Anne Porter.

Frank was also involved as a planner or coordinator of many writers’ activities in Northeast Florida. These include the Florida First Coast Writers’ Festival,

The State Street Review, Kalliope, Night of the Literary Feasts, Much To Do About Books, and The Amelia Island Book Festival.

Frank was also a long- time president of The North Florida Writers.

While attending The University of the South, Frank worked as an editorial assistant to novelist Andrew Lytle, editor of the Sewanee Review.

Although a philosophy major, he took at least one English literature course per term. He came to know the major leaders of New Criticism, including

Andrew Lytle, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, John Crow Ransom, and others who attended the Sewanee writers’ conferences as faculty or participants.

Frank was also literary assistant to Catherine Anne Porter.

Frank will long be remembered by the many whose lives he touched.

Among those Frank left with a lasting love of the word….. his first teaching assignment, eighth grade, at Grace Chapel Parish Day School, Jacksonville, Florida…..

Now known as San Jose Episcopal Day School.

To this day many of Frank’s students remember him as the teacher who taught them to love learning.