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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene OM CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.[1][2]

Graham Greene

Greene in 1975
BornHenry Graham Greene
(1904-10-02)2 October 1904
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England
Died3 April 1991(1991-04-03) (aged 86)
Vevey, Switzerland
OccupationWriter
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Period1925–1991
GenreLiterary fiction, thriller
Notable works
Spouse
(m. 1927; sep. 1947)
PartnerCatherine Walston, Lady Walston (1946–1966)
Yvonne Cloetta (1966–1991)
Children2
RelativesRaymond Greene (brother); Graham C. Greene (nephew)

Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times.[3][4][5] Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. He was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize.

He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning.[6] Later in life he took to calling himself a "Catholic agnostic".[7] He died in 1991, aged 86, of leukemia,[8] and was buried in Corseaux cemetery in Switzerland.[9]

Early years (1904–1922) edit

 
Greene was born in Berkhamsted School where his father taught.
 
Graham Greene's birthplace blue plaque

Henry Graham Greene was born in 1904 in St John's House, a boarding house of Berkhamsted School, Hertfordshire, where his father was house master.[10] He was the fourth of six children; his younger brother, Hugh, became Director-General of the BBC, and his elder brother, Raymond, an eminent physician and mountaineer.

His parents, Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene, were first cousins, both members of a large, influential family that included the owners of Greene King Brewery, bankers, and statesmen; his mother was cousin to Robert Louis Stevenson.[11] Charles Greene was second master at Berkhamsted School, where the headmaster was Dr Thomas Fry, who was married to Charles' cousin. Another cousin was the right-wing pacifist Ben Greene, whose politics led to his internment during World War II.

In his childhood, Greene spent his summers with his uncle, Sir Graham Greene, at Harston House in Cambridgeshire. In Greene's description of his childhood, he describes his learning to read there: "It was at Harston I found quite suddenly I could read—the book was Dixon Brett, Detective. I didn't want anyone to know of my discovery, so I read only in secret, in a remote attic, but my mother must have spotted what I was at all the same, for she gave me Ballantyne's The Coral Island for the train journey home—always an interminable journey with the long wait between trains at Bletchley..."

In 1910, Charles Greene succeeded Dr Fry as headmaster of Berkhamsted. Graham also attended the school as a boarder. Bullied and profoundly depressed, he made several suicide attempts, including, as he wrote in his autobiography, by Russian roulette and by taking aspirin before going swimming in the school pool. In 1920, aged 16, in what was a radical step for the time, he was sent for psychoanalysis for six months in London, afterwards returning to school as a day student.[12] School friends included Claud Cockburn the journalist, and Peter Quennell the historian.

Greene contributed several stories to the school magazine, one of which was published by a London evening newspaper in January 1921.

Oxford University edit

He attended Balliol College, Oxford, to study history. During 1922 Greene was for a short time a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and sought an invitation to the new Soviet Union, of which nothing came.[13] In 1925, while he was an undergraduate at Balliol, his first work, a poorly received volume of poetry titled Babbling April, was published.[13]

Greene had periodic bouts of depression while at Oxford, and largely kept to himself.[14] Of Greene's time at Oxford, his contemporary Evelyn Waugh noted that: "Graham Greene looked down on us (and perhaps all undergraduates) as childish and ostentatious. He certainly shared in none of our revelry."[14] He graduated in 1925 with a second-class degree in history.[13]

Writing career edit

After leaving Oxford, Greene worked as a private tutor and then turned to journalism; first on the Nottingham Journal,[15] and then as a sub-editor on The Times. While he was working in Nottingham, he started corresponding with Vivien Dayrell-Browning, who had written to him to correct him on a point of Catholic doctrine. Greene was an agnostic, but when he later began to think about marrying Vivien, it occurred to him that, as he puts it in A Sort of Life, he "ought at least to learn the nature and limits of the beliefs she held". Greene was baptised on 26 February 1926 and they married on 15 October 1927 at St Mary's Church, Hampstead, London.

He published his first novel, The Man Within, in 1929; its favourable reception enabled him to work full-time as a novelist. Greene originally divided his fiction into two genres (which he described as "entertainments" and "novels"): thrillers—often with notable philosophic edges—such as The Ministry of Fear; and literary works—on which he thought his literary reputation would rest—such as The Power and the Glory.

The next two books, The Name of Action (1930) and Rumour at Nightfall (1932), were unsuccessful; and he later disowned them. His first true success was Stamboul Train (1932) which was taken on by the Book Society and adapted as the film Orient Express, in 1934.

Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Roman 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 Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the Affair;[8] which have been named "the gold standard" of the Catholic novel.[16] Several works, such as The Confidential Agent, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Human Factor, and his screenplay for The Third Man, also show Greene's avid interest in the workings and intrigues of international politics and espionage.

He supplemented his novelist's income with freelance journalism, book and film reviews for The Spectator, and co-editing the magazine Night and Day. Greene's 1937 film review[17] of Wee Willie Winkie, for Night and Day—which said that the nine-year-old star, Shirley Temple, displayed "a dubious coquetry" which appealed to "middle-aged men and clergymen"—provoked Twentieth Century Fox successfully to sue for £3,500 plus costs,[18][19] and Greene leaving the UK to live in Mexico until after the trial was over.[20][21] While in Mexico, Greene developed the ideas for the novel often considered his masterpiece, The Power and the Glory.[20]

By the 1950s, Greene had become known as one of the finest writers of his generation.[22][23]

As his career lengthened, both Greene and his readers found the distinction between his 'entertainments' and novels increasingly problematic. The last book Greene termed an entertainment was Our Man in Havana in 1958.

Greene also wrote short stories and plays, which were well received, although he was always first and foremost a novelist. His first play, The Living Room, debuted in 1953.[24]

Michael Korda, a lifelong friend and later his editor at Simon & Schuster, observed Greene at work: Greene wrote in a small black leather notebook with a black fountain pen and would write approximately 500 words. Korda described this as Graham's daily penance—once he finished he put the notebook away for the rest of the day.[25][26]

His writing influences included Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marcel Proust, John Buchan, and Charles Péguy.[27][28][29]

Travel and espionage edit

Throughout his life, Greene travelled to what he called the world's wild and remote places. In 1941, the travels led to his being recruited into MI6 by his sister, Elisabeth, who worked for the agency. Accordingly, he was posted to Sierra Leone during the Second World War.[30] Kim Philby, who would later be revealed as a Soviet agent, was Greene's supervisor and friend at MI6.[31][32] Greene resigned from MI6 in 1944.[33] Greene later wrote an introduction to Philby's 1968 memoir, My Silent War.[34] As a novelist Greene wove the characters he met and the places where he lived into the fabric of his novels.

Greene first left Europe at 30 years of age in 1935 on a trip to Liberia that produced the travel book Journey Without Maps.[35] His 1938 trip to Mexico to see the effects of the government's campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularisation was paid for by the publishing company Longman, thanks to his friendship with Tom Burns.[36] That voyage produced two books, the factual The Lawless Roads (published as Another Mexico in the US) 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 ignore the criticism.[37]

Greene first travelled to Haiti in 1954,[38] where The Comedians (1966) is set,[39] which was then under the rule of dictator François Duvalier, known as "Papa Doc", frequently staying at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince.[40] And, in the late 1950s, as inspiration for his novel, A Burnt-Out Case (1960), Greene spent time travelling around Africa visiting a number of leper colonies in the Congo Basin and in what were then the British Cameroons.[41] During this trip in late February and early March 1959, Greene met several times with Andrée de Jongh, a leader in the Belgian resistance during WWII, who famously established an escape route to Gibraltar through the Pyrenees for downed allied airmen.[42]

In 1957, just months after Fidel Castro began his final revolutionary assault on the Batista regime in Cuba, Greene played a small role in helping the revolutionaries, as a secret courier transporting warm clothing for Castro's rebels hiding in the hills during the Cuban winter.[43] Greene was said [by whom?] to have a fascination with strong leaders, which may have accounted for his interest in Castro, whom he later met. After one visit Castro gave Greene a painting he had done, which hung in the living room of the French house where the author spent the last years of his life.[43] Greene did later voice doubts about Castro, telling a French interviewer in 1983, "I admire him for his courage and his efficiency, but I question his authoritarianism," adding: "All successful revolutions, however idealistic, probably betray themselves in time."[43]

Publishing career edit

Between 1944 and 1948, Greene was director at Eyre & Spottiswoode under chairman Douglas Jerrold, in charge of developing its fiction list.[44] Greene created The Century Library series, which was discontinued after he left following a conflict with Jerrold regarding Anthony Powell's contract. In 1958, Greene was offered the position of chairman by Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre, but declined.[45]

He was a director at The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1968 under Max Reinhardt.[46]

Personal life edit

Greene was an agnostic, but was baptised into the Catholic faith in 1926 after meeting his future wife Vivien Dayrell-Browning.[6] They were married on 15 October 1927 at St Mary's Church, Hampstead, north London. The Greenes had two children, Lucy Caroline (born 1933) and Francis (born 1936).

In his discussions with Father Trollope, the priest to whom he went for instruction in Catholicism, Greene argued with the cleric "on the ground of dogmatic atheism", as Greene's primary difficulty with religion was what he termed the "if" surrounding God's existence. He found, however, that "after a few weeks of serious argument the 'if' was becoming less and less improbable",[47] and Greene was converted and baptised after vigorous arguments initially with the priest in which he defended atheism, or at least the "if" of agnosticism.[48] Late in life, Greene called himself a "Catholic agnostic".[7]

Beginning in 1946, Greene had an affair with Catherine Walston, the wife of Harry Walston, a wealthy farmer and future life peer.[49] That relationship is generally thought to have informed the writing of The End of the Affair, published in 1951, when the relationship came to an end.[50][51] Greene left his family in 1947, but Vivien refused to grant him a divorce, in accordance with Catholic teaching, and they remained married until Greene's death in 1991.

Greene lived with manic depression (bipolar disorder).[52][53] He had a history of depression, which had a profound effect on his writing and personal life.[54] 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".[55] William Golding praised Greene as "the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety".[56]

Final years edit

 
Gravestone at Corseaux, Switzerland

Greene left Britain in 1966, moving to Antibes,[57] to be close to Yvonne Cloetta, whom he had known since 1959, a relationship that endured until his death. In 1973, he had an uncredited cameo appearance as an insurance company representative in François Truffaut's film Day for Night. In 1981, Greene was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, awarded to writers concerned with the freedom of the individual in society.

He lived the last years of his life in Vevey, on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the same town Charlie Chaplin was living in at this time. He visited Chaplin often, and the two were good friends.[9] His book Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party (1980) is based on themes of combined philosophical and geographical influences. He ceased going to mass and confession in the 1950s, but in his final years began to receive the sacraments again from Father Leopoldo Durán, a Spanish priest, who became a friend.

In one of his final works, a pamphlet titled J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice (1982), Greene wrote of a legal matter that embroiled him and his extended family in Nice, and declared that organised crime flourished in Nice because the city's upper levels of civic government protected judicial and police corruption. The accusation provoked a libel lawsuit that Greene lost;[58] but he was vindicated after his death when, in 1994, the former mayor of Nice, Jacques Médecin, was imprisoned for corruption and associated crimes.

In 1984, in celebration of his 80th birthday, the brewery which Greene's great-grandfather founded in 1799 made a special edition of its St. Edmund's Ale for him, with a special label in his honour.[59] Commenting on turning 80, Greene said, "The big advantage ... is that at 80 you are more likely these days to beat out encountering your end in a nuclear war," adding, "the other side of the problem is that I really don't want to survive myself [which] has nothing to do with nukes, but with the body hanging around while the mind departs."[59]

In 1986, Greene was awarded Britain's Order of Merit. He died of leukaemia in 1991 at the age of 86.[8] and was buried in Corseaux cemetery.[9]

Writing style and themes edit

 
Cover of the second German edition of The Quiet American (1956), claiming to be on sale only 8 weeks after the first edition, with the implication that the first is already sold out

Greene originally divided his fiction into two genres: thrillers (mystery and suspense books), such as The Ministry of Fear, which he described as entertainments, often with notable philosophic edges; and literary works, such as The Power and the Glory, which he described as novels, on which he thought his literary reputation was to be based.[60]

As his career lengthened, both Greene and his readers found the distinction between "entertainments" and "novels" to be less evident. The last book Greene termed an entertainment was Our Man in Havana in 1958. When Travels with My Aunt was published eleven years later, many reviewers noted that Greene had designated it a novel, even though, as a work decidedly comic in tone, it appeared closer to his last two entertainments, Loser Takes All and Our Man in Havana, than to any of the novels. Greene, they speculated, seemed to have dropped the category of entertainment. This was soon confirmed. In the Collected Edition of Greene's works published in 22 volumes between 1970 and 1982, the distinction between novels and entertainments is no longer maintained. All are novels.

Greene was one of the more "cinematic" of twentieth-century writers; most of his novels and many of his plays and short stories have been adapted for film or television.[61] The Internet Movie Database lists 66 titles between 1934 and 2010 based on Greene material. Some novels were filmed more than once, such as Brighton Rock in 1947 and 2011, The End of the Affair in 1955 and 1999, and The Quiet American in 1958 and 2002. The 1936 thriller A Gun for Sale was filmed at least five times under different titles, notably This Gun for Hire in 1942. Greene received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay for the 1948 Carol Reed film The Fallen Idol, adapted from his own short story The Basement Room. He also wrote several original screenplays. In 1949, after writing the novella as "raw material", he wrote the screenplay for a classic film noir, The Third Man, also directed by Carol Reed, and featuring Orson Welles. In 1983, The Honorary Consul, published ten years earlier, was released as a film under its original title, starring Michael Caine and Richard Gere. Author and screenwriter Michael Korda contributed a foreword and introduction to this novel in a commemorative edition.

In 2009, The Strand Magazine began to publish in serial form a newly discovered Greene novel titled The Empty Chair. The manuscript was written in longhand when Greene was 22 and newly converted to Catholicism.

Greene's literary style was described by Evelyn Waugh in Commonweal as "not a specifically literary style at all. The words are functional, devoid of sensuous attraction, of ancestry, and of independent life". Commenting on the lean prose and its readability, Richard Jones wrote in the Virginia Quarterly Review that "nothing deflects Greene from the main business of holding the reader's attention".[62] Greene's novels often have religious themes at their centre. In his literary criticism he attacked the modernist writers Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster for having lost the religious sense which, he argued, resulted in dull, superficial characters, who "wandered about like cardboard symbols through a world that is paper-thin".[63] Only in recovering the religious element, the awareness of the drama of the struggle in the soul that carries the permanent consequence of salvation or damnation, and of the ultimate metaphysical realities of good and evil, sin and divine grace, could the novel recover its dramatic power. Suffering and unhappiness are omnipresent in the world Greene depicts; and Catholicism is presented against a background of unvarying human evil, sin, and doubt. V. S. Pritchett praised Greene as the first English novelist since Henry James to present, and grapple with, the reality of evil.[64] Greene concentrated on portraying the characters' internal lives—their mental, emotional, and spiritual depths. His stories are often set in poor, hot and dusty tropical places such as Mexico, West Africa, Vietnam, Cuba, Haiti, and Argentina, which led to the coining of the expression "Greeneland" to describe such settings.[65]

A stranger with no shortage of calling cards: devout Catholic, lifelong adulterer, pulpy hack, canonical novelist; self-destructive, meticulously disciplined, deliriously romantic, bitterly cynical; moral relativist, strict theologian, salon communist, closet monarchist; civilized to a stuffy fault and louche to drugged-out distraction, anti-imperialist crusader and postcolonial parasite, self-excoriating and self-aggrandizing, to name just a few.

The Nation, describing the many facets of Graham Greene[66]

The novels often portray the dramatic struggles of the individual soul from a 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. His friend and fellow Catholic 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. 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,[64] and a mainstream Catholic critique is presented by Joseph Pearce.[47]

Catholicism's prominence decreased in his later writings. The supernatural realities that haunted the earlier work declined and were replaced by a humanistic perspective, a change reflected in his public criticism of orthodox Catholic teaching.

In his later years, Greene was a strong critic of American imperialism and sympathised with the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whom he had met.[67] Years before the Vietnam War, he prophetically attacked the idealistic but arrogant beliefs of The Quiet American, whose certainty in his own virtue kept him from seeing the disaster he inflicted on the Vietnamese.[68] In Ways of Escape, reflecting on his Mexican trip, he complained that Mexico's government was insufficiently left-wing compared with Cuba's.[69] In Greene's opinion, "Conservatism and Catholicism should be ... impossible bedfellows".[69]

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

— Graham Greene

In April 1949, when the New Statesman held a contest for parodies of Greene's writing style, he submitted three entries under the names "M. Wilkinson", “N. Wilkinson" and "D.R. Cook". As "M. Wilkinson", he shared the prize (one guinea) with four other authors. He later wrote to the magazine revealing his identity and expressing regret that his other two entries had not won, "because prize money in these days is free of Income Tax." Greene's entry comprised the first two paragraphs of a novel, apparently set in Italy, The Stranger's Hand: An Entertainment. Greene's friend Mario Soldati, a Piedmontese novelist and film director, believed it had the makings of a suspense film about Yugoslav spies in postwar Venice. Upon Soldati's prompting, Greene continued writing the story as the basis for a film script. Apparently he lost interest in the project, leaving it as a substantial fragment that was published posthumously in The Graham Greene Film Reader (1993) and No Man's Land (2005). A script for The Stranger's Hand was written by Guy Elmes on the basis of Greene's unfinished story, and filmed by Soldati in 1954. In 1965, Greene again entered a similar New Statesman competition pseudonymously, and won an honourable mention.

Legacy edit

 
Blue plaque erected in 2011 by English Heritage at 14 Clapham Common North Side, Clapham, London.

Greene is regarded as a major 20th-century novelist,[1][2] and was praised by John Irving, prior to Greene's death, as "the most accomplished living novelist in the English language".[70] Novelist Frederick Buechner called Greene's novel The Power and the Glory a "tremendous influence".[71] By 1943, Greene had acquired the reputation of being the "leading English male novelist of his generation",[72] and at the time of his death in 1991 had a reputation as a writer of both deeply serious novels on the theme of Catholicism,[73] and of "suspense-filled stories of detection".[74]

Acclaimed during his lifetime, Greene was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times.[5] In 1961[3] and 1966[4] he was among the final three candidates for the prize. In 1967, Greene was again among the final three choices, according to Nobel records unsealed on the 50th anniversary in 2017. The committee also considered Jorge Luis Borges and Miguel Ángel Asturias, with the latter the chosen winner.[75][76][77] Greene remained a favourite to win the Nobel prize in the 1980s, but it was known that two influential members of the Swedish Academy, Artur Lundkvist and Lars Gyllensten, opposed the prize for Greene and he was never awarded.[78]

Greene collected several literary awards for his novels, including the 1941 Hawthornden Prize for The Power and the Glory and the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Heart of the Matter. As an author, he received the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize, a biennial literary award given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society. In 1986, he was awarded Britain's Order of Merit.

The Graham Greene International Festival is an annual four-day event of conference papers, informal talks, question and answer sessions, films, dramatised readings, music, creative writing workshops and social events. It is organised by the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, and takes place in the writer's home town of Berkhamsted (about 35 miles northwest of London), on dates as close as possible to the anniversary of his birth (2 October). Its purpose is to promote interest in and study of the works of Graham Greene.[79][80]

He is the subject of the 2013 documentary film, Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene.[81]

His short story "The Destructors" was featured in the 2001 film Donnie Darko.

Select works edit

No Man's Land (2005)

  • (short stories)

References edit

Citations edit

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  2. ^ a b Diemert, Brian (27 August 1996). Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 183. ISBN 9780773566170.
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  10. ^ Cook, John (2009). (PDF). Berkhamsted Town Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011.
  11. ^ Iyer, Pico (5 January 2012). The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 8. ISBN 9781408829028.
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  24. ^ Billington, Michael (13 March 2013). "The Living Room—review". The Guardian. London.
  25. ^ Korda, Michael (1999). Another Life: A Memoir of Other People. United States: Random House. pp. 312–325. ISBN 0-679-45659-7.
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  34. ^ Greene's introduction to the Philby book is mentioned in Christopher Hitchens' introduction to Our Man in Havana (pg xx of the Penguin Classics edition)
  35. ^ Butcher, Tim (2010). "Graham Greene: Our Man in Liberia". History Today Volume: 60 Issue: 10. Retrieved 20 March 2012. insisted this trip, his first to Africa and his first outside Europe
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  38. ^ Paul Theroux (1 January 2004). Introduction to The Comedians. Random House. p. v. ISBN 9780099478379.
  39. ^ Diederich, Bernard (2012). Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954–1983. Peter Owen.
  40. ^ Duncan Campbell (17 December 2005). "Drinking, dancing and death". The Guardian.
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  42. ^ Neave, Airey (1970), The Escape Room, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., pp. 126–127
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Works cited edit

  • Bosco, Mark, 2005. Graham Greene's Catholic Imagination. Oxford University Press.
  • Diederich, Bernard, 2012. Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954–1983. Peter Owen
  • Diemert, Brian, 1996. Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s. McGill-Queen's Press
  • Donaghy, Henry J., 1983. Graham Greene, an Introduction to His Writings. Rodopi
  • Feldman, Burton, 2001.The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige. Arcade Publishing
  • Kohn, Lynette, 1961. Graham Greene: The Major Novels. Stanford University Press
  • Iyer, Pico, 2012. The Man within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me. Bloomsbury.
  • Schwartz, Adam, 2005. The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones. CUA Press
  • Steensma, Robert C., 1997, Encyclopedia of the Essay. Taylor & Francis
  • Theroux, Paul, 2004. Introduction to The Comedians. Random House
  • Vickers, Graham, 2008. Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again. Chicago Review Press

Further reading edit

  • Graham Greene Studies (journal), University of North Georgia - Digital Commons, bepress, Elsevier
  • Allain, Marie-Françoise, 1983. The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene. Bodley Head.
  • Bergonzi, Bernard, 2006. A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel. Oxford University Press.
  • Cloetta, Yvonne, 2004. In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene, translated by Euan Cameron. Bloomsbury.
  • Fallowell, Duncan, 20th Century Characters, Loaded: Graham Greene at home in Antibes (London, Vintage Books, 1994)
  • Greene, Richard, editor, 2007. Graham Greene: A Life in Letters. Knopf Canada.
  • Hazzard, Shirley, 2000. Greene on Capri. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
  • Henríquez Jiménez, Santiago J. La realidad y la construcción de la ficción en la novelística de Graham Greene, La Laguna: Universidad, 1992.
  • Henríquez Jiménez, Santiago J. "Graham Greene's novels seen in the Light of His Religious Discourse" en Wm. Thomas Hill (ed.). Perceptions of Religious Faith in the Work of Graham Greene. Oxford, New York...: Peter Lang. 2002. 657–685.
  • Henríquez Jiménez, Santiago J. "Don Quijote de la Mancha y Monsignor Quixote: la inspiración castellana de Grahan Greene en el clásico español de Cervantes" en José Manuel Barrio Marco y María José Crespo Allué (eds.). La huella de Cervantes y del Quijote en la cultura anglosajona. Centro Buendía y Universidad de Valladolid. Valladolid. 2007. 311–318.
  • Henríquez Jiménez, Santiago J. "Miguel de Unamuno y Graham Greene: coincidencias en torno a los cuidados de la fe" en Teresa Gibert Maceda y Laura Alba Juez (coord..). Estudios de Filología Inglesa. Homenaje a la Dra. Asunción Alba Pelayo. Madrid: UNED. 2008. 421–430.
  • Hull, Christopher. Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel (Pegasus Books, 2019) online review
  • Phillips, Gene D., 1974. Graham Greene: Films of His Fiction, Teachers' College Press.
  • O'Prey, Paul, 1988. A Reader's Guide to Graham Greene. Thames and Hudson.
  • Shelden, Michael, 1994. Graham Greene: The Enemy Within. William Heinemann. Random House ed., 1995, ISBN 0-679-42883-6
  • Sherry, Norman, 1989. The Life of Graham Greene: Vol. 1, 1904–1939. Random House UK, ISBN 0-224-02654-2. Viking, ISBN 0-670-81376-1. Penguin reprint 2004, ISBN 0-14-200420-0
  • Sherry, Norman, 1994. The Life of Graham Greene: Vol. 2, 1939–1955. Viking. ISBN 0-670-86056-5. Penguin reprint 2004: ISBN 0-14-200421-9
  • Sherry, Norman, 2004. The Life of Graham Greene: Vol. 3, 1955–1991. Viking. ISBN 0-670-03142-9
  • Simon Raven & Martin Shuttleworth "Graham Greene Interviewed, The Art of Fiction No. 3". The Paris Review. Autumn 1953 (3). Autumn 1953.
  • West, William John (1998). The quest for Graham Greene (1st US ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-18161-1.
  • Bernhard Valentinitsch,Graham Greenes Roman 'The Human Factor'(1978) und Otto Premingers gleichnamige Verfilmung (1979). In:JIPSS (= Journal for Intelligence,Propaganda and Security),Nr.14.Graz 2021,p. 34-56.

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For other people named Graham Greene see Graham Greene disambiguation Henry Graham Greene OM CH 2 October 1904 3 April 1991 was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century 1 2 Graham GreeneOM CHGreene in 1975BornHenry Graham Greene 1904 10 02 2 October 1904Berkhamsted Hertfordshire EnglandDied3 April 1991 1991 04 03 aged 86 Vevey SwitzerlandOccupationWriterAlma materBalliol College OxfordPeriod1925 1991GenreLiterary fiction thrillerNotable worksThe Power and the Glory 1940 The Heart of the Matter 1948 The End of the Affair 1951 The Quiet American 1955 SpouseVivien Dayrell Browning m 1927 sep 1947 wbr PartnerCatherine Walston Lady Walston 1946 1966 Yvonne Cloetta 1966 1991 Children2RelativesRaymond Greene brother Graham C Greene nephew Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer both of serious Catholic novels and of thrillers or entertainments as he termed them He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times 3 4 5 Through 67 years of writing which included over 25 novels he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world He was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future wife Vivien Dayrell Browning 6 Later in life he took to calling himself a Catholic agnostic 7 He died in 1991 aged 86 of leukemia 8 and was buried in Corseaux cemetery in Switzerland 9 Contents 1 Early years 1904 1922 1 1 Oxford University 2 Writing career 2 1 Travel and espionage 2 2 Publishing career 3 Personal life 4 Final years 5 Writing style and themes 6 Legacy 7 Select works 8 References 8 1 Citations 8 2 Works cited 9 Further reading 10 External linksEarly years 1904 1922 edit nbsp Greene was born in Berkhamsted School where his father taught nbsp Graham Greene s birthplace blue plaqueHenry Graham Greene was born in 1904 in St John s House a boarding house of Berkhamsted School Hertfordshire where his father was house master 10 He was the fourth of six children his younger brother Hugh became Director General of the BBC and his elder brother Raymond an eminent physician and mountaineer His parents Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene were first cousins both members of a large influential family that included the owners of Greene King Brewery bankers and statesmen his mother was cousin to Robert Louis Stevenson 11 Charles Greene was second master at Berkhamsted School where the headmaster was Dr Thomas Fry who was married to Charles cousin Another cousin was the right wing pacifist Ben Greene whose politics led to his internment during World War II In his childhood Greene spent his summers with his uncle Sir Graham Greene at Harston House in Cambridgeshire In Greene s description of his childhood he describes his learning to read there It was at Harston I found quite suddenly I could read the book was Dixon Brett Detective I didn t want anyone to know of my discovery so I read only in secret in a remote attic but my mother must have spotted what I was at all the same for she gave me Ballantyne s The Coral Island for the train journey home always an interminable journey with the long wait between trains at Bletchley In 1910 Charles Greene succeeded Dr Fry as headmaster of Berkhamsted Graham also attended the school as a boarder Bullied and profoundly depressed he made several suicide attempts including as he wrote in his autobiography by Russian roulette and by taking aspirin before going swimming in the school pool In 1920 aged 16 in what was a radical step for the time he was sent for psychoanalysis for six months in London afterwards returning to school as a day student 12 School friends included Claud Cockburn the journalist and Peter Quennell the historian Greene contributed several stories to the school magazine one of which was published by a London evening newspaper in January 1921 Oxford University edit He attended Balliol College Oxford to study history During 1922 Greene was for a short time a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and sought an invitation to the new Soviet Union of which nothing came 13 In 1925 while he was an undergraduate at Balliol his first work a poorly received volume of poetry titled Babbling April was published 13 Greene had periodic bouts of depression while at Oxford and largely kept to himself 14 Of Greene s time at Oxford his contemporary Evelyn Waugh noted that Graham Greene looked down on us and perhaps all undergraduates as childish and ostentatious He certainly shared in none of our revelry 14 He graduated in 1925 with a second class degree in history 13 Writing career editAfter leaving Oxford Greene worked as a private tutor and then turned to journalism first on the Nottingham Journal 15 and then as a sub editor on The Times While he was working in Nottingham he started corresponding with Vivien Dayrell Browning who had written to him to correct him on a point of Catholic doctrine Greene was an agnostic but when he later began to think about marrying Vivien it occurred to him that as he puts it in A Sort of Life he ought at least to learn the nature and limits of the beliefs she held Greene was baptised on 26 February 1926 and they married on 15 October 1927 at St Mary s Church Hampstead London He published his first novel The Man Within in 1929 its favourable reception enabled him to work full time as a novelist Greene originally divided his fiction into two genres which he described as entertainments and novels thrillers often with notable philosophic edges such as The Ministry of Fear and literary works on which he thought his literary reputation would rest such as The Power and the Glory The next two books The Name of Action 1930 and Rumour at Nightfall 1932 were unsuccessful and he later disowned them His first true success was Stamboul Train 1932 which was taken on by the Book Society and adapted as the film Orient Express in 1934 Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Roman 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 Brighton Rock The Power and the Glory The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair 8 which have been named the gold standard of the Catholic novel 16 Several works such as The Confidential Agent The Quiet American Our Man in Havana The Human Factor and his screenplay for The Third Man also show Greene s avid interest in the workings and intrigues of international politics and espionage He supplemented his novelist s income with freelance journalism book and film reviews for The Spectator and co editing the magazine Night and Day Greene s 1937 film review 17 of Wee Willie Winkie for Night and Day which said that the nine year old star Shirley Temple displayed a dubious coquetry which appealed to middle aged men and clergymen provoked Twentieth Century Fox successfully to sue for 3 500 plus costs 18 19 and Greene leaving the UK to live in Mexico until after the trial was over 20 21 While in Mexico Greene developed the ideas for the novel often considered his masterpiece The Power and the Glory 20 By the 1950s Greene had become known as one of the finest writers of his generation 22 23 As his career lengthened both Greene and his readers found the distinction between his entertainments and novels increasingly problematic The last book Greene termed an entertainment was Our Man in Havana in 1958 Greene also wrote short stories and plays which were well received although he was always first and foremost a novelist His first play The Living Room debuted in 1953 24 Michael Korda a lifelong friend and later his editor at Simon amp Schuster observed Greene at work Greene wrote in a small black leather notebook with a black fountain pen and would write approximately 500 words Korda described this as Graham s daily penance once he finished he put the notebook away for the rest of the day 25 26 His writing influences included Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford Henry James H Rider Haggard Robert Louis Stevenson Marcel Proust John Buchan and Charles Peguy 27 28 29 Travel and espionage edit Throughout his life Greene travelled to what he called the world s wild and remote places In 1941 the travels led to his being recruited into MI6 by his sister Elisabeth who worked for the agency Accordingly he was posted to Sierra Leone during the Second World War 30 Kim Philby who would later be revealed as a Soviet agent was Greene s supervisor and friend at MI6 31 32 Greene resigned from MI6 in 1944 33 Greene later wrote an introduction to Philby s 1968 memoir My Silent War 34 As a novelist Greene wove the characters he met and the places where he lived into the fabric of his novels Greene first left Europe at 30 years of age in 1935 on a trip to Liberia that produced the travel book Journey Without Maps 35 His 1938 trip to Mexico to see the effects of the government s campaign of forced anti Catholic secularisation was paid for by the publishing company Longman thanks to his friendship with Tom Burns 36 That voyage produced two books the factual The Lawless Roads published as Another Mexico in the US 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 ignore the criticism 37 Greene first travelled to Haiti in 1954 38 where The Comedians 1966 is set 39 which was then under the rule of dictator Francois Duvalier known as Papa Doc frequently staying at the Hotel Oloffson in Port au Prince 40 And in the late 1950s as inspiration for his novel A Burnt Out Case 1960 Greene spent time travelling around Africa visiting a number of leper colonies in the Congo Basin and in what were then the British Cameroons 41 During this trip in late February and early March 1959 Greene met several times with Andree de Jongh a leader in the Belgian resistance during WWII who famously established an escape route to Gibraltar through the Pyrenees for downed allied airmen 42 In 1957 just months after Fidel Castro began his final revolutionary assault on the Batista regime in Cuba Greene played a small role in helping the revolutionaries as a secret courier transporting warm clothing for Castro s rebels hiding in the hills during the Cuban winter 43 Greene was said by whom to have a fascination with strong leaders which may have accounted for his interest in Castro whom he later met After one visit Castro gave Greene a painting he had done which hung in the living room of the French house where the author spent the last years of his life 43 Greene did later voice doubts about Castro telling a French interviewer in 1983 I admire him for his courage and his efficiency but I question his authoritarianism adding All successful revolutions however idealistic probably betray themselves in time 43 Publishing career edit Between 1944 and 1948 Greene was director at Eyre amp Spottiswoode under chairman Douglas Jerrold in charge of developing its fiction list 44 Greene created The Century Library series which was discontinued after he left following a conflict with Jerrold regarding Anthony Powell s contract In 1958 Greene was offered the position of chairman by Oliver Crosthwaite Eyre but declined 45 He was a director at The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1968 under Max Reinhardt 46 Personal life editGreene was an agnostic but was baptised into the Catholic faith in 1926 after meeting his future wife Vivien Dayrell Browning 6 They were married on 15 October 1927 at St Mary s Church Hampstead north London The Greenes had two children Lucy Caroline born 1933 and Francis born 1936 In his discussions with Father Trollope the priest to whom he went for instruction in Catholicism Greene argued with the cleric on the ground of dogmatic atheism as Greene s primary difficulty with religion was what he termed the if surrounding God s existence He found however that after a few weeks of serious argument the if was becoming less and less improbable 47 and Greene was converted and baptised after vigorous arguments initially with the priest in which he defended atheism or at least the if of agnosticism 48 Late in life Greene called himself a Catholic agnostic 7 Beginning in 1946 Greene had an affair with Catherine Walston the wife of Harry Walston a wealthy farmer and future life peer 49 That relationship is generally thought to have informed the writing of The End of the Affair published in 1951 when the relationship came to an end 50 51 Greene left his family in 1947 but Vivien refused to grant him a divorce in accordance with Catholic teaching and they remained married until Greene s death in 1991 Greene lived with manic depression bipolar disorder 52 53 He had a history of depression which had a profound effect on his writing and personal life 54 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 55 William Golding praised Greene as the ultimate chronicler of twentieth century man s consciousness and anxiety 56 Final years edit nbsp Gravestone at Corseaux SwitzerlandGreene left Britain in 1966 moving to Antibes 57 to be close to Yvonne Cloetta whom he had known since 1959 a relationship that endured until his death In 1973 he had an uncredited cameo appearance as an insurance company representative in Francois Truffaut s film Day for Night In 1981 Greene was awarded the Jerusalem Prize awarded to writers concerned with the freedom of the individual in society He lived the last years of his life in Vevey on Lake Geneva in Switzerland the same town Charlie Chaplin was living in at this time He visited Chaplin often and the two were good friends 9 His book Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party 1980 is based on themes of combined philosophical and geographical influences He ceased going to mass and confession in the 1950s but in his final years began to receive the sacraments again from Father Leopoldo Duran a Spanish priest who became a friend In one of his final works a pamphlet titled J Accuse The Dark Side of Nice 1982 Greene wrote of a legal matter that embroiled him and his extended family in Nice and declared that organised crime flourished in Nice because the city s upper levels of civic government protected judicial and police corruption The accusation provoked a libel lawsuit that Greene lost 58 but he was vindicated after his death when in 1994 the former mayor of Nice Jacques Medecin was imprisoned for corruption and associated crimes In 1984 in celebration of his 80th birthday the brewery which Greene s great grandfather founded in 1799 made a special edition of its St Edmund s Ale for him with a special label in his honour 59 Commenting on turning 80 Greene said The big advantage is that at 80 you are more likely these days to beat out encountering your end in a nuclear war adding the other side of the problem is that I really don t want to survive myself which has nothing to do with nukes but with the body hanging around while the mind departs 59 In 1986 Greene was awarded Britain s Order of Merit He died of leukaemia in 1991 at the age of 86 8 and was buried in Corseaux cemetery 9 Writing style and themes edit nbsp Cover of the second German edition of The Quiet American 1956 claiming to be on sale only 8 weeks after the first edition with the implication that the first is already sold outGreene originally divided his fiction into two genres thrillers mystery and suspense books such as The Ministry of Fear which he described as entertainments often with notable philosophic edges and literary works such as The Power and the Glory which he described as novels on which he thought his literary reputation was to be based 60 As his career lengthened both Greene and his readers found the distinction between entertainments and novels to be less evident The last book Greene termed an entertainment was Our Man in Havana in 1958 When Travels with My Aunt was published eleven years later many reviewers noted that Greene had designated it a novel even though as a work decidedly comic in tone it appeared closer to his last two entertainments Loser Takes All and Our Man in Havana than to any of the novels Greene they speculated seemed to have dropped the category of entertainment This was soon confirmed In the Collected Edition of Greene s works published in 22 volumes between 1970 and 1982 the distinction between novels and entertainments is no longer maintained All are novels Greene was one of the more cinematic of twentieth century writers most of his novels and many of his plays and short stories have been adapted for film or television 61 The Internet Movie Database lists 66 titles between 1934 and 2010 based on Greene material Some novels were filmed more than once such as Brighton Rock in 1947 and 2011 The End of the Affair in 1955 and 1999 and The Quiet American in 1958 and 2002 The 1936 thriller A Gun for Sale was filmed at least five times under different titles notably This Gun for Hire in 1942 Greene received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay for the 1948 Carol Reed film The Fallen Idol adapted from his own short story The Basement Room He also wrote several original screenplays In 1949 after writing the novella as raw material he wrote the screenplay for a classic film noir The Third Man also directed by Carol Reed and featuring Orson Welles In 1983 The Honorary Consul published ten years earlier was released as a film under its original title starring Michael Caine and Richard Gere Author and screenwriter Michael Korda contributed a foreword and introduction to this novel in a commemorative edition In 2009 The Strand Magazine began to publish in serial form a newly discovered Greene novel titled The Empty Chair The manuscript was written in longhand when Greene was 22 and newly converted to Catholicism Greene s literary style was described by Evelyn Waugh in Commonweal as not a specifically literary style at all The words are functional devoid of sensuous attraction of ancestry and of independent life Commenting on the lean prose and its readability Richard Jones wrote in the Virginia Quarterly Review that nothing deflects Greene from the main business of holding the reader s attention 62 Greene s novels often have religious themes at their centre In his literary criticism he attacked the modernist writers Virginia Woolf and E M Forster for having lost the religious sense which he argued resulted in dull superficial characters who wandered about like cardboard symbols through a world that is paper thin 63 Only in recovering the religious element the awareness of the drama of the struggle in the soul that carries the permanent consequence of salvation or damnation and of the ultimate metaphysical realities of good and evil sin and divine grace could the novel recover its dramatic power Suffering and unhappiness are omnipresent in the world Greene depicts and Catholicism is presented against a background of unvarying human evil sin and doubt V S Pritchett praised Greene as the first English novelist since Henry James to present and grapple with the reality of evil 64 Greene concentrated on portraying the characters internal lives their mental emotional and spiritual depths His stories are often set in poor hot and dusty tropical places such as Mexico West Africa Vietnam Cuba Haiti and Argentina which led to the coining of the expression Greeneland to describe such settings 65 A stranger with no shortage of calling cards devout Catholic lifelong adulterer pulpy hack canonical novelist self destructive meticulously disciplined deliriously romantic bitterly cynical moral relativist strict theologian salon communist closet monarchist civilized to a stuffy fault and louche to drugged out distraction anti imperialist crusader and postcolonial parasite self excoriating and self aggrandizing to name just a few The Nation describing the many facets of Graham Greene 66 The novels often portray the dramatic struggles of the individual soul from a 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 His friend and fellow Catholic 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 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 64 and a mainstream Catholic critique is presented by Joseph Pearce 47 Catholicism s prominence decreased in his later writings The supernatural realities that haunted the earlier work declined and were replaced by a humanistic perspective a change reflected in his public criticism of orthodox Catholic teaching In his later years Greene was a strong critic of American imperialism and sympathised with the Cuban leader Fidel Castro whom he had met 67 Years before the Vietnam War he prophetically attacked the idealistic but arrogant beliefs of The Quiet American whose certainty in his own virtue kept him from seeing the disaster he inflicted on the Vietnamese 68 In Ways of Escape reflecting on his Mexican trip he complained that Mexico s government was insufficiently left wing compared with Cuba s 69 In Greene s opinion Conservatism and Catholicism should be impossible bedfellows 69 In human relationships kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths Graham Greene In April 1949 when the New Statesman held a contest for parodies of Greene s writing style he submitted three entries under the names M Wilkinson N Wilkinson and D R Cook As M Wilkinson he shared the prize one guinea with four other authors He later wrote to the magazine revealing his identity and expressing regret that his other two entries had not won because prize money in these days is free of Income Tax Greene s entry comprised the first two paragraphs of a novel apparently set in Italy The Stranger s Hand An Entertainment Greene s friend Mario Soldati a Piedmontese novelist and film director believed it had the makings of a suspense film about Yugoslav spies in postwar Venice Upon Soldati s prompting Greene continued writing the story as the basis for a film script Apparently he lost interest in the project leaving it as a substantial fragment that was published posthumously in The Graham Greene Film Reader 1993 and No Man s Land 2005 A script for The Stranger s Hand was written by Guy Elmes on the basis of Greene s unfinished story and filmed by Soldati in 1954 In 1965 Greene again entered a similar New Statesman competition pseudonymously and won an honourable mention Legacy edit nbsp Blue plaque erected in 2011 by English Heritage at 14 Clapham Common North Side Clapham London Greene is regarded as a major 20th century novelist 1 2 and was praised by John Irving prior to Greene s death as the most accomplished living novelist in the English language 70 Novelist Frederick Buechner called Greene s novel The Power and the Glory a tremendous influence 71 By 1943 Greene had acquired the reputation of being the leading English male novelist of his generation 72 and at the time of his death in 1991 had a reputation as a writer of both deeply serious novels on the theme of Catholicism 73 and of suspense filled stories of detection 74 Acclaimed during his lifetime Greene was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times 5 In 1961 3 and 1966 4 he was among the final three candidates for the prize In 1967 Greene was again among the final three choices according to Nobel records unsealed on the 50th anniversary in 2017 The committee also considered Jorge Luis Borges and Miguel Angel Asturias with the latter the chosen winner 75 76 77 Greene remained a favourite to win the Nobel prize in the 1980s but it was known that two influential members of the Swedish Academy Artur Lundkvist and Lars Gyllensten opposed the prize for Greene and he was never awarded 78 Greene collected several literary awards for his novels including the 1941 Hawthornden Prize for The Power and the Glory and the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Heart of the Matter As an author he received the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize a biennial literary award given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society In 1986 he was awarded Britain s Order of Merit The Graham Greene International Festival is an annual four day event of conference papers informal talks question and answer sessions films dramatised readings music creative writing workshops and social events It is organised by the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust and takes place in the writer s home town of Berkhamsted about 35 miles northwest of London on dates as close as possible to the anniversary of his birth 2 October Its purpose is to promote interest in and study of the works of Graham Greene 79 80 He is the subject of the 2013 documentary film Dangerous Edge A Life of Graham Greene 81 His short story The Destructors was featured in the 2001 film Donnie Darko Select works editMain article Graham Greene bibliography The Man Within debut 1929 Stamboul Train 1932 also published as Orient Express in the US It s a Battlefield 1934 England Made Me also published as The Shipwrecked 1935 A Gun for Sale 1936 Journey Without Maps 1936 Brighton Rock 1938 The Lawless Roads 1939 also published as Another Mexico in the US The Confidential Agent 1939 The Power and the Glory 1940 The Ministry of Fear 1943 The Heart of the Matter 1948 The Third Man 1949 novella written as a preliminary to Greene s screenplay for the film The Third Man The End of the Affair 1951 Twenty One Stories 1954 short stories Loser Takes All 1955 The Quiet American 1955 The Potting Shed 1956 Our Man in Havana 1958 A Burnt Out Case 1960 In Search of a Character Two African Journals 1961 The Comedians 1966 Travels with My Aunt 1969 A Sort of Life 1971 The Honorary Consul 1973 The Human Factor 1978 Ways of Escape 1980 Doctor Fischer of Geneva 1980 Monsignor Quixote 1982 Getting To Know The General The Story of an Involvement 1984 The Tenth Man 1985 The Last Word 1990 No Man s Land 2005 short stories References editCitations edit a b Diemert Brian 27 August 1996 Graham Greene s Thrillers and the 1930s McGill Queen s Press p 5 ISBN 9780773566170 a b Diemert Brian 27 August 1996 Graham Greene s Thrillers and the 1930s McGill Queen s Press p 183 ISBN 9780773566170 a b Neuman Ricki 3 January 2012 Graham Greene var nara Nobelpris 1961 Svenska Dagbladet in Swedish a b Nomination archive Graham Greene a b Steensma Robert C 1997 Encyclopedia of the Essay Taylor amp Francis p 264 ISBN 9781884964305 a b Donaghy Henry J 1983 Graham Greene an Introduction to His Writings Rodopi p 13 ISBN 9062035353 a b Sweeney Jon 2008 Almost Catholic An Appreciation of the History Practice and Mystery of Ancient Faith United States Jossey Bass p 23 ISBN 978 0787994709 a b c Graham Greene The Major Novels A Centenary Archived 27 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine by Kevin McGowin Eclectica Magazine a b c Graham Greene finds no Swiss cuckoo clocks Swissinfo ch 19 May 2006 Retrieved 2 June 2010 Cook John 2009 A Glimpse of our History a short guided tour of Berkhamsted PDF Berkhamsted Town Council Archived from the original PDF on 27 September 2011 Iyer Pico 5 January 2012 The Man Within My Head Graham Greene My Father and Me Bloomsbury Publishing p 8 ISBN 9781408829028 Iyer Pico 5 January 2012 The Man Within My Head Graham Greene My Father and Me Bloomsbury Publishing p 9 ISBN 9781408829028 a b c Graham Greene Biography notablebiographies com Retrieved 11 March 2016 a b Michael Shelden Greene Henry Graham 1904 1991 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 online edn Oct 2008 accessed 15 May 2011 Graham Greene Biogs com Retrieved 2 June 2010 Bosco Mark 21 January 2005 Graham Greene s Catholic Imagination Oxford University Press p 3 ISBN 9780198039358 Graham Greene s infamous review of Wee Willie Winkie 1937 starring Shirley Temple The Charnel House 26 February 2014 Retrieved 4 December 2014 Atkinson Michael 21 August 2009 Our Man in London movingimagesource us Chancellor Alexander 22 February 2014 Was Graham Greene right about Shirley Temple The Spectator a b Johnson Andrew 18 November 2007 Shirley Temple scandal was real reason Graham Greene fled to Mexico The Independent Vickers Graham 1 August 2008 Chasing Lolita How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov s Little Girl All Over Again Chicago Review Press p 64 ISBN 9781556526824 Barrett D 2009 Graham Greene In Poole A ed The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge Cambridge University Press pp 423 437 doi 10 1017 CCOL9780521871198 027 ISBN 9780521871198 13 Must Read Graham Greene Books earlybirdbooks com accessed 31 October 2020 Billington Michael 13 March 2013 The Living Room review The Guardian London Korda Michael 1999 Another Life A Memoir of Other People United States Random House pp 312 325 ISBN 0 679 45659 7 Korda Michael 11 July 1999 Another Life A Memoir of Other People Interview www booknotes org C Span Retrieved 30 December 2016 Miller R H 1990 Understanding Graham Greene Columbia SC University of South Carolina Press ISBN 0 87249 704 6 Pendleton Robert 1996 Graham Greene s Conradian Masterplot Suffolk MacMillan Press ISBN 0 333 62888 8 Diemert Brian 1996 Graham Greene s Thrillers and the 1930s Montreal McGill Queen s University Press ISBN 0 7735 1432 5 Christopher Hawtree A Muse on the tides of history Elisabeth Dennys The Guardian 10 February 1999 Retrieved 16 April 2011 Robert Royal November 1999 The Mis Guided Dream of Graham Greene First Things Retrieved 2 June 2010 BBC BBC Four Documentaries Arena Graham Greene BBC News 3 October 2004 Retrieved 2 June 2010 Brennan Michael G 18 March 2010 Graham Greene Fictions Faith and Authorship Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN 978 1 4411 3742 5 Greene s introduction to the Philby book is mentioned in Christopher Hitchens introduction to Our Man in Havana pg xx of the Penguin Classics edition Butcher Tim 2010 Graham Greene Our Man in Liberia History Today Volume 60 Issue 10 Retrieved 20 March 2012 insisted this trip his first to Africa and his first outside Europe Graham Greene Uneasy Catholic Times Literary Supplement 22 August 2006 EUROPE Vatican s bid to censure Graham Greene BBC News 3 November 2000 Retrieved 2 June 2010 Paul Theroux 1 January 2004 Introduction to The Comedians Random House p v ISBN 9780099478379 Diederich Bernard 2012 Seeds of Fiction Graham Greene s Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954 1983 Peter Owen Duncan Campbell 17 December 2005 Drinking dancing and death The Guardian Greene Graham 1961 A Burnt Out Case New York Amer ed The Viking Press p vii viii Neave Airey 1970 The Escape Room Garden City NY Doubleday amp Co pp 126 127 a b c Miller Tom 14 April 1991 Sex Spies and Literature Graham Greene s Cuba Helping Fidel Was the Heart of the Matter Washington Post Greene Richard 2011 Graham Greene A Life in Letters Sherry Norman 2004 The Life of Graham Greene 1939 1955 Volume two Viking ISBN 978 0 14 200421 0 Hill Mike 2015 The Works of Graham Greene Volume 2 A Guide to the Graham Greene Archives p 33 a b Joseph Pearce Graham Greene Doubter Par Excellence CatholicAuthors com Retrieved 7 January 2011 The Power and the Glory New York Viking 1990 Introduction by John Updike p xiv McCrum Robert 16 January 2000 Scrabble and strife Graham Greene s love affair with the mysterious C was hardly a secret the real truth lies in the private letters they left behind The Guardian Schwartz Adam 1 February 2005 The Third Spring G K Chesterton Graham Greene Christopher Dawson and David Jones CUA Press pp 181 182 ISBN 9780813213873 Hastings Chris 29 November 2008 Graham Greene s love poems to mistress who inspired The End of the Affair The Daily Telegraph Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 Sherry Norman 26 May 2016 The Life of Graham Greene Volume Three 1955 1991 Published 29 November 2005 by Penguin Books ISBN 9781473547018 Thorpe Vanessa 9 August 1998 Graham Greene Bipolar The Independent Extract from Graham Greene A Life in Letters edited by Richard Greene The Times 13 September 2007 Archived from the original on 17 May 2011 Graham Greene A Life In Letters Book Reviews Books Entertainment Sydney Morning Herald 30 November 2007 Retrieved 2 June 2010 Stade George ed 12 May 2010 Encyclopedia of British Writers 1800 to the Present Vol 1 Infobase p 218 ISBN 9781438116891 Retrieved 28 January 2021 Jordison Sam 15 June 2012 Reading group Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene The Guardian Retrieved 16 May 2022 Eder Richard 5 February 1982 On the Riviera A Morality Tale by Graham Greene archive nytimes com a b Vinocur John 3 March 1985 The Soul Searching Continues for Graham Greene The celebrated writer whose new book is a long forgotten novella The Tenth Man still dwells on doubt and failure New York Times Magazine New York Greene Graham Authors guardian co uk Books London Books guardian co uk 22 July 2008 Retrieved 2 June 2010 Series Details Cinema ucla edu Retrieved 2 June 2010 The Improbable Spy Vqronline org Archived from the original on 20 November 2008 Retrieved 2 June 2010 First Things Angelfire com 9 October 2004 Archived from the original on 11 November 2009 Retrieved 2 June 2010 a b The Catholic Novels of Graham Greene Crisis Magazine May 2005 Regions of the Mind The Exoticism of Greeneland Dur ac uk Archived from the original on 18 April 2009 Retrieved 2 June 2010 Not Easy Being Greene Graham Greene s Letters by Michelle Orange The Nation 15 April 2009 Liukkonen Petri Graham Greene Books and Writers Finland Kuusankoski Public Library Archived from the original on 27 July 2005 For Greene s views on politics see also Burgess Anthony 1967 Politics in the Novels of Graham Greene Journal of Contemporary History 2 2 93 99 doi 10 1177 002200946700200208 S2CID 153416421 a b P xii of John Updike s introduction to The Power and the Glory New York Viking 1990 Irving John The Imaginary Girlfriend New York Ballantine Books 2002 p 31 Dale Brown W 1997 Of fiction and faith twelve American writers talk about their vision and work Grand Rapids Mich W B Eerdmans Pub ISBN 0802843131 OCLC 36994237 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Diemert Brian 1996 Graham Greene s Thrillers and the 1930s McGill Queen s Press MQUP p 179 ISBN 9780773514331 Thomson Ian 3 October 2004 More Sherry trifles The Observer Kohn Lynette 1961 Graham Greene The Major Novels Stanford University Press p 23 Schueler Kaj January 2018 Hemliga dokument visar kampen om Nobelpriset Svenska Dagbladet Retrieved 3 January 2018 Carter David 28 March 2013 How to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature Hesperus Press p 22 ISBN 9781780940403 Feldman Burton 3 October 2001 The Nobel Prize A History of Genius Controversy and Prestige Arcade Publishing p 96 ISBN 9781559705370 Markham James M 7 October 1983 Briton Wins the Nobel Literature Prize The New York Times Home Graham Greene Retrieved 11 March 2016 The Potting Shed Jones Kimberley 30 April 2013 DVD Watch Dangerous Edge A Life of Graham Greene Austin Chronicle Retrieved 24 October 2014 Works cited edit Bosco Mark 2005 Graham Greene s Catholic Imagination Oxford University Press Diederich Bernard 2012 Seeds of Fiction Graham Greene s Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954 1983 Peter Owen Diemert Brian 1996 Graham Greene s Thrillers and the 1930s McGill Queen s Press Donaghy Henry J 1983 Graham Greene an Introduction to His Writings Rodopi Feldman Burton 2001 The Nobel Prize A History of Genius Controversy and Prestige Arcade Publishing Kohn Lynette 1961 Graham Greene The Major Novels Stanford University Press Iyer Pico 2012 The Man within My Head Graham Greene My Father and Me Bloomsbury Schwartz Adam 2005 The Third Spring G K Chesterton Graham Greene Christopher Dawson and David Jones CUA Press Steensma Robert C 1997 Encyclopedia of the Essay Taylor amp Francis Theroux Paul 2004 Introduction to The Comedians Random House Vickers Graham 2008 Chasing Lolita How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov s Little Girl All Over Again Chicago Review PressFurther reading editGraham Greene Studies journal University of North Georgia Digital Commons bepress Elsevier Allain Marie Francoise 1983 The Other Man Conversations with Graham Greene Bodley Head Bergonzi Bernard 2006 A Study in Greene Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel Oxford University Press Cloetta Yvonne 2004 In Search of a Beginning My Life with Graham Greene translated by Euan Cameron Bloomsbury Fallowell Duncan 20th Century Characters Loaded Graham Greene at home in Antibes London Vintage Books 1994 Greene Richard editor 2007 Graham Greene A Life in Letters Knopf Canada Hazzard Shirley 2000 Greene on Capri Farrar Straus amp Giroux Henriquez Jimenez Santiago J La realidad y la construccion de la ficcion en la novelistica de Graham Greene La Laguna Universidad 1992 Henriquez Jimenez Santiago J Graham Greene s novels seen in the Light of His Religious Discourse en Wm Thomas Hill ed Perceptions of Religious Faith in the Work of Graham Greene Oxford New York Peter Lang 2002 657 685 Henriquez Jimenez Santiago J Don Quijote de la Mancha y Monsignor Quixote la inspiracion castellana de Grahan Greene en el clasico espanol de Cervantes en Jose Manuel Barrio Marco y Maria Jose Crespo Allue eds La huella de Cervantes y del Quijote en la cultura anglosajona Centro Buendia y Universidad de Valladolid Valladolid 2007 311 318 Henriquez Jimenez Santiago J Miguel de Unamuno y Graham Greene coincidencias en torno a los cuidados de la fe en Teresa Gibert Maceda y Laura Alba Juez coord Estudios de Filologia Inglesa Homenaje a la Dra Asuncion Alba Pelayo Madrid UNED 2008 421 430 Hull Christopher Our Man Down in Havana The Story Behind Graham Greene s Cold War Spy Novel Pegasus Books 2019 online review Phillips Gene D 1974 Graham Greene Films of His Fiction Teachers College Press O Prey Paul 1988 A Reader s Guide to Graham Greene Thames and Hudson Shelden Michael 1994 Graham Greene The Enemy Within William Heinemann Random House ed 1995 ISBN 0 679 42883 6 Sherry Norman 1989 The Life of Graham Greene Vol 1 1904 1939 Random House UK ISBN 0 224 02654 2 Viking ISBN 0 670 81376 1 Penguin reprint 2004 ISBN 0 14 200420 0 Sherry Norman 1994 The Life of Graham Greene Vol 2 1939 1955 Viking ISBN 0 670 86056 5 Penguin reprint 2004 ISBN 0 14 200421 9 Sherry Norman 2004 The Life of Graham Greene Vol 3 1955 1991 Viking ISBN 0 670 03142 9 Simon Raven amp Martin Shuttleworth Graham Greene Interviewed The Art of Fiction No 3 The Paris Review Autumn 1953 3 Autumn 1953 West William John 1998 The quest for Graham Greene 1st US ed New York St Martin s Press ISBN 978 0 312 18161 1 Bernhard Valentinitsch Graham Greenes Roman The Human Factor 1978 und Otto Premingers gleichnamige Verfilmung 1979 In JIPSS Journal for Intelligence Propaganda and Security Nr 14 Graz 2021 p 34 56 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Graham Greene writer nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Graham Greene Graham Greene at IMDb Graham Greene at Curlie Works by or about Graham Greene at Internet Archive Works by Graham Greene at LibriVox public domain audiobooks nbsp Graham 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