Cover of The Life of Graham Greene: vol. 1 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry

Henry Graham Greene OM, CH (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was an English novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene combined serious literary acclaim with wide popularity. This article is about the Canadian actor. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 376 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (407 × 649 pixels, file size: 177 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 376 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (407 × 649 pixels, file size: 177 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the... Norman Sherry is an English born American novelist, biographer, and educator who is most well known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene. ... For other Orders see Order of Merit (disambiguation). ... The Order of the Companions of Honour is a British and Commonwealth Order. ... is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... This article is in need of attention. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... Screenwriters, scenarists, or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Catholic novelist rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religious themes are at the root of much of his writing, especially the four major Catholic novels: Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, and The Power and the Glory.^[1] Works such as The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana and The Human Factor also show an avid interest in the workings of international politics and espionage. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Brighton Rock is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938, and later made into a 1947 film. ... The Heart of the Matter is also a song by Don Henley, from the album The End of the Innocence. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... The Power and the Glory is a novel written by British author Graham Greene. ... The Quiet American (1955) is a novel (ISBN 0-09-947839-0) written by British author Graham Greene. ... Our Man In Havana is a 1958 novel by Graham Greene. ... The Human Factor (ISBN 0679409920) is an espionage novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1978 and adapted into a 1979 film by Otto Preminger. ... International relations (IR) is an academic and public policy field, a branch of political science, dealing with the foreign policy of states within the international system, including the roles of international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs). ... Spy and Secret agent redirect here. ...

Greene suffered from bipolar disorder ^[2], which had a profound effect on his writing, and drove him to excess in his personal life. In a letter to his wife Vivien, he told her that he had "a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life", and that "unfortunately, the disease is also one's material".^[3] For other uses, see Bipolar. ...

Life and work

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Childhood

Graham Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the fourth of six children — his younger brother Hugh became the Director-General of the BBC; elder brother Raymond was an eminent physician and mountaineer. , Berkhamsted is an historic town of some 19,000 people. ... For the similarly named county in the West Midlands region, see Herefordshire. ... Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (1910-1987) was Director-General of the BBC from 1960 to 1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955. ... The Director-General is chief executive and editor-in-chief of the BBC. The position is appointed by Board of Governors of the BBC. Sir John Reith (1927-1938) Sir Frederick Ogilvie (1938-1942) Sir Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot (joint Director-Generals, 1942-1943) Robert W. Foot (1942... Charles Raymond Greene (1901-1982) was a Doctor of Medicine and mountaineer, brother of the novelist Graham Greene and the broadcaster Hugh Greene. ...

His parents, Charles Henry Greene and Marion Greene (née Raymond), were first cousins, members of a large, influential family that included the Greene King brewery owners, bankers, and businessmen. Charles Greene was Second Master at Berkhamsted School, the headmaster of which was Dr Thomas Fry (also married to a cousin of Charles). Another cousin was the right-wing pacifist Ben Greene, whose politics led to his internment during World War II. A cousin couple is a pair of cousins with a romantic or sexual relationship. ... Greene King is a brewery in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK. There is a visitor centre next door to the brewery. ... View across the Grass Quad, Berkhamsted School Situated in the thriving town of Berkhamsted in the west of Hertfordshire, northeast of London, Berkhamsted School enjoys a prestigious history. ... A head teacher, headmaster or headmistress (all often referred to simply as the head) is the most senior teacher in a school in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... Ben Greene (28 December 1901 - October, 1978) was a British Labour Party politician and pacifist. ... This article is about the usage and history of the terms concentration camp, internment camp and internment. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

In 1910, Charles Greene succeeded Dr Fry as headmaster; Graham attended the school. Bullied and profoundly depressed as a boarder, he attempted suicide several times, some, he claimed, by Russian roulette; Michael Shelden's biography discredits that. In 1920, at age 16, he was psychoanalysed for six months in London, afterwards returning to school as a day boy; school friends included Claud Cockburn and Peter Quennell. A boarding school is a usually fee-charging school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. ... For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Russian roulette (disambiguation). ... Francis Claud Cockburn (pronounced ) (1904-1981) was a renowned radical British journalist, who was controversial for his communist and stalinist sympathies. ... Peter Quennell (March 9, 1905, Bickley, Kent (now in Greater London), England - October 27, 1993, London) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. ...

While an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1925, his first work, a volume of poorly received poetry entitled Babbling April, was published.^[4][5] and of the Balliol College College name Balliol College Named after John de Balliol Established 1263 Sister college St Johns College, Cambridge Master Andrew Graham JCR President Helen Lochead Undergraduates 403 MCR President Chelsea Payne Graduates 228 Location of Balliol College within central Oxford , Homepage Boatclub Balliol College (pronounced...

Early career

After graduating with a second-class degree in history,^[5] Greene unsuccessfully took up journalism, first in the city of Nottingham on the Nottingham Journal,^[6] and then as a sub-editor on The Times. While in Nottingham he started corresponding with Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a Roman Catholic convert who had written him to correct him on a point of Catholic doctrine. Greene converted to Catholicism in 1926 (described in A Sort of Life) and was baptised in February the same year.^[7] He married Dayrell-Browning in 1927, and they had two children, Lucy (b. 1933) and Francis (b. 1936; d. 1987). In 1948, Greene abandoned Vivien for Dorothy Glover. He had important affairs with a number of women, yet remained married to his wife. Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ... For other uses, see Nottingham (disambiguation). ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom (and the Kingdom of Great Britain before the United Kingdom existed) since 1788 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. ... Vivien Greene (née Daryell-Browning) (1904-4th September 2003) was the widow of the distinguished novelist Graham Greene and an authority on doll houses. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...

Novels and other works

The 2003 Penguin Classics edition of Greene's masterpiece The Power and the Glory

Greene's first published novel was The Man Within (1929).^[4] Favourable reception emboldened him to quit his sub-editor job at The Times and work as a full-time novelist. However, the next two books were unsuccessful; he later disowned them. His first true success was Stamboul Train (1932), adapted as the film Orient Express (1934); as with this novel, many of his books would be cinematically adapted. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ... The Power and the Glory is a novel written by British author Graham Greene. ... The Man Within (1929) is a novel by author Graham Greene. ... Stamboul Train (1932) is a novel by author Graham Greene. ...

He supplemented his novelist's income with freelance journalism, and book and film reviews for The Spectator, and co-editing the magazine Night and Day, which folded in 1937 shortly after Greene's film review of Wee Willie Winkie, featuring nine-year-old Shirley Temple, cost the magazine a lost libel lawsuit. Greene's review claimed that Temple displayed "a certain adroit coquetry which appealed to middle-aged men"; it is now considered one of the first criticisms of the sexualisation of children for entertainment. The Spectator is a conservative British political magazine, established 1828, published weekly. ... Night and Day may mean: Night and Day (song), a song written by Cole Porter for the 1932 play The Gay Divorcee; it subsequently became an American standard and has been peformed and recorded by dozens of artists, notably Frank Sinatra. ... Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) is an iconic American child actor of the 1930s. ... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ...

He originally divided his fiction in two genres: (i) thrillers (mystery and suspense books), such as The Ministry of Fear, that he described as entertainments; often with notable philosophic edges, and (ii) literary works, such as The Power and the Glory, that he described as novels, on which he thought his literary reputation was to be based.^[8] A genre [], (French: kind or sort from Greek: γένος (genos)) is a loose set of criteria for a category of literary composition; the term is also used for any other form of art or utterance. ... Ministry of Fear is a 1944 film noir directed by Fritz Lang based on the novel The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene. ... The Power and the Glory is a novel written by British author Graham Greene. ...

As his career lengthened, however, both Greene and his readers found the distinction between the entertainments and the novels to become blurred. His later efforts, such as The Human Factor, The Comedians, Our Man in Havana, and The Quiet American, combine these modes in compressed, but remarkably insightful work. He also wrote the screenplay, and afterward the novella, for the now-classic film noir, The Third Man (1949). The Human Factor (ISBN 0679409920) is an espionage novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1978 and adapted into a 1979 film by Otto Preminger. ... The Comedians is a novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1966. ... Our Man In Havana is a 1958 novel by Graham Greene. ... The Quiet American (1955) is a novel (ISBN 0-09-947839-0) written by British author Graham Greene. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... This article is about film noir. ...

Greene also wrote short stories and plays that were well-received, although he always was a novelist, foremost and he collected the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Heart of the Matter. His long, successful career and great readership (for a serious literary novelist) led to hope he would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; although considered in 1974, he was not awarded it. Greene's friend and occasional publisher, Michael Korda, wrote in his memoir, Another Life (1999), that Greene believed he was always one vote short of the prize, withheld by a judge who disliked his Catholicism and left-wing sympathies and "who seemed determined to outlive him". A play (noun) is a common literary form, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters, and usually intended for performance rather than reading. ... Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English Language. ... The Heart of the Matter is also a song by Don Henley, from the album The End of the Innocence. ... Nobel Prize in Literature medal. ... Michael Korda (b. ...

Travel

Throughout his life, Graham Greene travelled far from England, to what he called the world's wild and remote places. The travels led to him being recruited into MI6 by his sister, Elisabeth, who worked for the organisation, and he was posted to Sierra Leone during the Second World War. Kim Philby, who would later be revealed as a Soviet double agent, was Greene's supervisor and friend at MI6.^[9][10] As a novelist, he wove the characters he met and the places where he lived into the fabric of his novels. For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Kim Philby Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby or H.A.R. Philby (OBE: 1946-1965), (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, a communist, and spy for the Soviet Unions NKVD and KGB. In 1963, Philby was revealed as a member of... A double agent pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. ... The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6), or the Secret Service, is the United Kingdom external security agency. ...

Greene first left Europe at 31 years of age, in 1935, on a trip to Liberia that produced the travel book Journey Without Maps. His 1938 trip to Mexico, to see the effects of the government's campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularisation was paid for by Longman's, thanks to his friendship with Tom Burns.^[11] That voyage produced two books, the factual The Lawless Roads (published as Another Mexico in the U.S.), and the novel The Power and the Glory. In 1953, the Holy Office informed Greene that The Power and the Glory was damaging to the reputation of the priesthood, but later, in a private audience with Greene, Pope Paul VI told him that although parts of his novels would offend some Catholics, he should not pay attention to the criticism.^[12] Greene travelled to the Haiti of François Duvalier, alias "Papa Doc", where occurred the story of The Comedians (1966). On the lighter side, the owner of the Hotel Oloffson, in Port-au-Prince, where Greene frequently stayed, named a room in his honour. For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Travel literature is literature which records the people, events, sights and feelings of an author who is touring a foreign place for the pleasure of travel. ... Journey Without Maps (1936) is a travel account by Graham Greene, about a 350-mile, 4-week walk through the interior of Liberia in 1935. ... Anti-Catholicism is discrimination, hostility or prejudice directed at Catholics or the Catholic Church. ... This article concerns secularism, the exclusion of religion and supernatural beliefs. ... Longman is a firm of English publishers. ... The Power and the Glory is a novel written by British author Graham Greene. ... The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) (Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei) is the oldest of the nine congregations of the Roman Curia. ... This article cites very few or no references or sources. ... Dr. François Duvalier, known as Papa Doc (April 14, 1907 – April 21, 1971[1]), was the President of Haiti from 1957 and later dictator (President for Life) from 1964 until his death. ... The Comedians is a novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1966. ... The Hotel Oloffson is an inn in central Port-au-Prince, Haïti. ... Categories: Caribbean geography stubs | Capitals in North America | Haiti ...

Final years

In 1966, Greene moved to Antibes, to be close to Yvonne Cloetta, whom he had known since 1959, a relationship that endured until his death. In 1981 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, awarded to writers concerned with the freedom of the individual in society. One of his final works, the pamphlet J'Accuse — The Dark Side of Nice (1982), concerns a legal matter embroiling him and his extended family in Nice. He declared that organized crime flourished in Nice, because the city's upper levels of civic government had protected judicial and police corruption; the accusation provoked a libel lawsuit he lost [1]. Yet, in 1994, he was vindicated — after death — when the former mayor of Nice, Jacques Médecin, was imprisoned upon conviction for corruption and associated crimes. Antibes (Provençal Occitan: Antíbol in classical norm or Antibo in Mistralian norm) is a resort town of southeastern France, on the Mediterranean Sea in the Côte dAzur, located between Cannes and Nice. ... The Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society is a biennial literary award given to writers whose work has dealt with themes of human freedom, society, politics, and government. ... Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Coordinates Administration Country Region Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Department Alpes-Maritimes (06) Intercommunality Community of Agglomeration Nice Côte dAzur Mayor Jacques Peyrat (UMP) (since 1995) Statistics Land area¹ 71. ... Organized crime or criminal organizations are groups or operations run by criminals, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. ... Jacques Médecin (1928-1998) was a French politician. ...

He lived the last years of his life in Vevey, on Lake Geneva, in Switzerland. His book Dr. Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party (1980) bases its themes on combined philosophic and geographic influences. He had ceased attending Mass and confessing in the 1950s, but received the sacraments from a Father Leopaldo Durán, a Spanish priest who became a friend. On dying at age 86 in 1991, he was buried in the Corsier-sur-Vevey cemetery. Vevey A house in Vevey Vevey is a town in Switzerland in the canton Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva. ... Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (French Lac Léman, le Léman, or Lac de Genève) is the second largest freshwater lake in Central Europe (after Lake Balaton). ... Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party (1980), is a short novel by the English novelist Graham Greene. ... For other uses, see Mass (disambiguation). ... A sacrament is a Christian rite that mediates divine grace. ... Corsier-sur-Vevey is a municipality in the district of Vevey in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. ...

His official biographer, Norman Sherry, published the third, final volume of The Life of Graham Greene in October of 2004. Sherry followed Greene's footsteps, at times suffering the diseases that Greene suffered and in the same place. The biography reveals that Greene continued reporting to British intelligence until his life's end, allowing literary scholars and readers to entertain the provocative question of whether Graham Greene was a novelist who also was a spy, or if he was a spy whose life-long novelist's career was the perfect cover. Norman Sherry is an English born American novelist, biographer, and educator who is most well known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene. ...

Writing style and themes

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The literary style of Graham Greene was described by Evelyn Waugh in Commonwealth as "not a specifically literary style at all. The words are functional, devoid of sensuous attraction, of ancestry, and of independent life".^[13] This lean, realistic prose and readability was thought by Virginia Quarterly Review to be "the main business of holding the reader's attention."^[13] His cinematic visual sense led to a number of his novels being made into films,^[14] such as Brighton Rock in 1947, The End of the Affair in 1999, and The Quiet American in 1958 and 2002. Moreover, he also wrote several original screenplays, such as The Third Man in 1949. Yet, he concentrated on portraying the characters' internal lives, the mental, emotional, and spiritual depths. Usually, they are deeply troubled with internal, existential struggles, are world-weary, and cynical, finding themselves rootlessly existing in seedy and sordid circumstances.^{[citation needed]} The stories usually occurred in poor, hot, and dusty tropical backwaters in countries such as Mexico, West Africa, Vietnam, Cuba, Haiti, and Argentina, which led to the coining of the expression "Greeneland" to describe such settings.^[15] Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... For other uses, see Commonwealth (disambiguation). ... Virginia Quarterly Review styles itself as A National Journal of Literature and Discussion. ... Brighton Rock is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938, and later made into a 1947 film. ... The End of the Affair is a 1999 drama film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea. ... The Quiet American (1955) is a novel (ISBN 0-09-947839-0) written by British author Graham Greene. ... The Quiet American was the first film adaptation of Graham Greenes bestselling novel, released in 1958. ... The Quiet American is a 2002 remake of the original 1958 film of the same name, which was based on Graham Greenes bestselling novel. ... Sample from a screenplay, showing dialogue and action descriptions. ... This article is about film noir. ...  Western Africa (UN subregion)  Maghreb[1] West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ...

The novels of Graham Greene often had religious themes at the centre. In his literary criticism, he attacked the modernist writers Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster for having lost the religious sense and for lacking such themes, which he argued, resulted in dull, superficial characters who: wandered about like cardboard symbols through a world that is paper-thin.^[16] Only in recovering the religious element, the awareness of the drama of the struggle in the soul carrying the infinite consequences of salvation and damnation, and of the ultimate metaphysical realities of good and evil, sin and grace, could the novel recover its dramatic power. Suffering and unhappiness are omnipresent in the fallen world Greene depicts, and Catholicism is presented against a background of unvarying human evil, sin and doubt. Indeed, V. S. Pritchett praised Greene as the first English novelist since Henry James to present, and grapple with, the reality of evil.^[17] Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... Modernist literature is the literary form of Modernism and especially High modernism; it should not be confused with modern literature, which is the history of the modern novel and modern poetry as one. ... For the American writer, see Virginia Euwer Wolff. ... Edward Morgan Forster, OM (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. ... For other uses, see Salvation (disambiguation). ... “Dammit” redirects here. ... Victor Sawdon Pritchett (December 16, 1900 - March 20, 1997), was a British writer and critic. ... For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ...

The novels often powerfully portray the Christian drama of the struggles within the individual soul from the Catholic perspective. Greene was criticised for certain tendencies in an unorthodox direction — in the world, sin is omnipresent to the degree that the vigilant struggle to avoid sinful conduct is doomed to failure, hence, not central to holiness. Friend and fellow Catholic writer Evelyn Waugh attacked that as a revival of the Quietist heresy. This aspect of his work also was criticised by the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar as giving sin a mystique. Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... Quietism is a Christian philosophy that swept through France, Italy and Spain during the 17th century, but it had much earlier origins. ... Hans Urs von Balthasar (August 12, 1905—June 26, 1988) was a Swiss theologian and priest who was nominated to be a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

Greene responded that constructing a vision of pure faith and goodness in the novel was beyond his talents. Praise of Greene from an orthodox Catholic point of view, by Edward Short, is in Crisis magazine [2], and a mainstream Catholic critique is presented by Joseph Pearce.^[18] Joseph Pearce (born 1961) is an English-born writer, as of 2005 Writer in Residence and Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida; previously he had a comparable position, from 2001, at Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ...

Catholicism's prominence decreased in the later writings. The supernatural realities that haunted the earlier work declined and was replaced with a humanistic perspective, a change reflected in his public criticism of orthodox Catholic teaching. Left-wing political critiques assumed greater importance in his novels, for example, he attacked the American policy in Vietnam in The Quiet American; the tormented believers portrayed were more likely to have faith in Communism than in Catholicism. Humanism is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appeal to universal human qualities—particularly rationality. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... This article is about the form of society and political movement. ...

Unlike other "Catholic writers" such as Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Burgess, Greene's politics were always left-wing, though some biographers think politics mattered little to him.^{[citation needed]} In his later years, he was a strong critic of American imperialism, and supported the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whom he had met.^[19] For Greene and politics, see also Anthony Burgess Politics in the Novels of Graham Greene^[20] In Ways of Escape, reflections of his Mexican trip, he complained that Mexico's government was insufficiently left-wing when compared with Cuba's ^[21]. In Greene's opinion, “Conservatism and Catholicism should be .... impossible bedfellows”. ^[22]. Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was a British novelist, critic and composer. ... For other uses, see American Empire (disambiguation). ... Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba but on indefinite medical hiatus. ...

Nonetheless, despite his seriousness, Graham Greene greatly enjoyed parody, even of himself. In 1949, when the New Statesman magazine held a contest for parodies of Greene's distinctive writing style, he submitted a pseudonymous entry and won second prize; the first prize was awarded to a parody entered by his younger brother Hugh.^{[citation needed]} The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ... Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (1910-1987) was Director-General of the BBC from 1960 to 1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955. ...

The resulting work, The Stranger's Hand, was later completed by another writer and cinematically rendered by the Italian film director Mario Soldati. In 1965, Greene again entered a similar New Statesman Graham Greene writing style parody contest, again pseudonymously, and that time won an honourable mention. Mario Soldati (Turin, November 11, 1906 - Tellaro, June 19, 1999) was an Italian journalist, film director, also novel writer. ...

List of major works

See List of books by Graham Greene for all works. // Babbling April (1925) The Man Within (1929) The Name of Action (1930) (repudiated by author, never re-published) Rumour at Nightfall (1932) (repudiated by author, never re-published) Stamboul Train (1932) (also published as Orient Express) Its a Battlefield (1934) England Made Me (1935) A Gun for Sale (1936...

• Brighton Rock (1938)
• The Power and the Glory (1940)
• The Heart of the Matter (1948)
• The Third Man (1949) (novella, as a basis for the screenplay}
• The End of the Affair (1951)
• The Quiet American (1955)
• The Potting Shed (1957)
• Ways of Escape (1980) (autobiography)

Brighton Rock is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938, and later made into a 1947 film. ... The Power and the Glory is a novel written by British author Graham Greene. ... The Heart of the Matter is also a song by Don Henley, from the album The End of the Innocence. ... This article is about film noir. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... The Quiet American (1955) is a novel (ISBN 0-09-947839-0) written by British author Graham Greene. ... The Potting Shed is a play by Graham Greene. ...

References

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Further reading

• Cedric Watts, A Preface to Greene, Longman, 1996

• W J West, The Quest for Graham Greene, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997

• Paul O'Prey, A Reader's Guide to Graham Greene, Thames and Hudson, 1988
• Kelly, Richard Michael, Graham Greene, Ungar, 1984
• Kelly, Richard Michael, Graham Greene: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne, 1992.
• Duran, Leopoldo , Graham Greene: Friend and Brother, translated by Euan Cameron, HarperCollins
• Shelden, Michael , Graham Greene: The Man Within, (pub. William Heinemann, 1994), Random House ed. 1995: ISBN 0-679-42883-6
• Sherry, Norman (1989-2004), The Life of Graham Greene: vol. 1 1904-1939, (pub. Random House UK, 1989, ISBN 0-224-02654-2), Viking ed. 1989: ISBN 0-670-81376-1, Penguin reprint 2004: ISBN 0-14-200420-0
• Sherry, Norman, The Life of Graham Greene: vol. 2 1939-1955, (pub. Viking 1994: ISBN 0-670-86056-5), Penguin reprint 2004: ISBN 0-14-200421-9
• Sherry, Norman, The Life of Graham Greene: vol. 3 1955-1991, (pub. Viking 2004, ISBN 0-670-03142-9)
• The Graham Greene Film Reader
• Diemert, Brian. Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930 (pub. McGill-Queen's up, 1996)

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External links

Graham Greene Birthplace Trust : www.grahamgreenebt.org

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