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Graham Greene: author biography
| Graham Greene's Biography | |
| Birth: | 2nd October 1904 |
| Death: | 3rd April 1991 |
| Father: | Charles Henry Greene |
| Mother: | Marion Raymond Greene |
| Spouse/Partners: | Vivien Dayrell-Browning (1927-1947), Catherine Walston (1946-1966), Yvonne Cloetta (1966-1991) |
| Children: | 2 |
| Cause of death: | Leukaemia |
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| Nationality: | English |
| Literary Period: | Realism |
Graham Greene was born on 2 October 1904 in Berkhamsted, England. Greene had many strings to his bow but was known most prominently as a novelist. He was a journalist, but he also wrote plays, poems, and short stories. His first publication was a book of poetry, and he even had time to work for MI6. A prominent theme of his fiction was the blurred lines of morality. Many of his novels were set during tense, political situations.
Graham Greene attended Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire. His father was the headmaster when he was boarding. Greene suffered from anxiety du
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Graham Greene
British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904-1991)
For other people named Graham Greene, see Graham Greene (disambiguation).
Henry Graham GreeneOM 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]
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. The Power and the Glory won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and The Heart of the Matter won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black. Greene was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize. Several of his sto
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Graham Greene (Henry Graham Greene) Biography
Englishnovelist, born in Berkhamsted, near London, educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford. His father was the headmaster of Berkhamsted School; Greene has encouraged critics to see the divided loyalties which resulted as an origin of his fiction's distinctive antinomies and conflicting faiths—what he calls, quoting Robert Browning, its general concern with ‘the dangerous edge of things & The honest thief, the tender murderer | The superstitious atheist’. Schooldays drove him close to breakdown and suicide—he was one of the first schoolboys in England to be psychoanalysed, in 1920—and Norman Sherry's The Life of Graham Greene (1989) has traced the cruelties of his fellow pupils as a source of the repeated interest of his fiction in fugitives, betrayal, secrecy, and lost innocence.
Oxford saw the publication of his only book of poems, Babbling April (1925), brief membership of the Communist Party, and a romance with Vivien Dayrell-Browning which required his conversion to Cath
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