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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 ] 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).
Feb 23, 2024 · Greene’s travels were often undertaken—and sometimes paid for—under the auspices of his journalistic writing. His 1935 trip to Liberia produced the travel book Journey Without Maps, while a 1938 trip to Mexico, undertaken partly to dodge a lawsuit filed by 20th Century Fox when Greene’s review of the 1937 John Ford film Wee Willie Winkie described nine-year-old Shirley Temple as displaying a “dubious coquetry” which appealed to “middle-aged men and clergymen,” helped to ...
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Mar 15, 2021 · Graham Greene was an almost eerily disciplined writer. He could write in the middle of wars, the Mau Mau uprising, you name it. And he wrote, quite strictly, five hundred words per day, in a ...
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Graham Greene (born October 2, 1904, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England—died April 3, 1991, Vevey, Switzerland) was an English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist whose novels treat life’s moral ambiguities in the context of contemporary political settings. His father was the headmaster of Berkhamsted School, which ...
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Sep 25, 2004 · Image by Richard Kenworthy. During his lifetime Graham Greene was regarded as our greatest novelist, the master of ingenuity and excitement, the writer whose ambivalent moral equations and compromised characters invaded the consciousness of two generations of readers. Since his death in April 1991, the world has moved on to another century and ...
Apr 15, 1991 · For no serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene. Millions who have never read him are nonetheless familiar with his ...
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Nov 26, 2019 · As a thinker and as a fiction writer Greene was a master of paradox, creating a world of moral and theological mystery in which ignobility and failure may often be the road to salvation. Indeed, in Greene’s world the worst sin is a presumed innocence which masks a corrosive egotism that effectively cuts human beings off from their fellow creatures and from God.
