Graham Greene
2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991
Graham Greene was an English novelist, short story writer and screenwriter whose work combined thriller plots with moral and religious questions. A convert to Catholicism, he drew on extensive travel and on wartime service with the Secret Intelligence Service for novels including The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1949 film The Third Man.
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Life events
Born the fourth of six children; his father was a housemaster and later headmaster of Berkhamsted School.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRead modern history at Oxford and published a volume of verse while an undergraduate.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgConverted to Catholicism, a decision connected with his courtship of Vivien Dayrell-Browning.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe couple had two children and separated in 1947, though they never divorced.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel's success encouraged him to leave his sub-editing job at The Times and write full time.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel about a fugitive priest in revolutionary Mexico won the Hawthornden Prize.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorked for the Secret Intelligence Service during the Second World War, reporting to Kim Philby in London.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis story and script for Carol Reed's film set in occupied Vienna were published as a novella.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLeft Britain and lived in France for most of the rest of his life before moving to Switzerland.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied of leukaemia at the age of 86 and was buried at Corseaux.
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