Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene OM CH , better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century. 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 . He was shortlisted, in 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writings, which included overnovels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world, often through a Catholic perspective.

Greene was born in Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire into a large, influential family that included the owners of the Greene King Brewery. He later boarded at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire, where his father taught and became headmaster. Unhappy at the school, he attempted suicide several times. He went up to Balliol College, Oxford to study history, where, while an undergraduate, he published his first work in 1925a poorly received volume of poetry, Babbling April. After graduating, Greene worked first as a private tutor and then as a journalist first on the Nottingham Journal and then as a subeditor on The Times. He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future wife, Vivien DayrellBrowning. However, later in life took to calling himself a Catholic agnostic, or even at times a Catholic atheist. He published his first novel, The Man Within, in 1929 its favourable reception enabled him to work fulltime as a novelist. He supplemented his novelists income with freelance journ

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