for a life of luxury. Recently, the negative characterization of Helen "as a theatre-hating woman who ruined Barker's career" has been disputed, and her dislike of the theater refuted, on the basis of Granville-Barker's early correspondence with her. "In fact she was a regular theatre-goer, a writer and Barker's eventual collaborator." He later settled in Paris where he collaborated with Huntington on translating the comedies of Martínez Sierra and the Álvarez Quintero brothers. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Granville-Barker fled France for Spain before moving to the United States. In America he lectured at Harvard and was also employed by British Information Services. At the end of the war he returned to France and died in Paris on 31 August 1946. Sympathetic to left-wing causes, he had declined a knighthood. Bibliography Plays by Harley Granville Barker (The Marrying of Ann Leete, The Voysey Inheritance, The Kyle and Waste), ed. Dennis Kennedy, Cambridge University Press (1987) Prefaces to Shakespeare by Harley Granville Barker, in 12 paperback volumes by Nick Hern Books, originally published by Batsford; published in two hardback volumes in 1946 and 1947 Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre by Dennis Kennedy, Cambridge University Press (1985) The Court Theatre A Commentary and Criticism 1904–1907 by Desmond MacCarthy, Bullen (1907), University of Miami Press (1966) Cambridge Guide to Theatre, 1992 Granville‐Barker, Harley (1877–1946). (2012). The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Harley Granville Barker Reclaimed (featuring the plays The Madras House, The Voysey Inheritance, and Farewell to the Theater) Granville Press and Mint Theater Company (2007) Granville Barker, Harley. (2010). The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance Granville Barker: A Secret Life by Eric Salmon, Heinemann Educational Books (1983) References External links Granville-Barker bio Theatre Database bio Harley Granville-Barker Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin 1877 births 1946 deaths English male stage actors Writers from London Actor-managers Male actors from London English male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 19th-century English male actors 20th-century English male actors 20th-century English male writers Members of the Fabian Society