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Known for his espionage thrillers set in exotic locales, Graham Greene is the writer who launched a thousand travel journalists. But although Greene produced some unabashedly commercial works -- he called them "entertainments," to distinguish them from his novels -- even his escapist fiction is rooted in the gritty realities he encountered around the globe.
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Fact File
| Name:
Graham Greene
Also Known As:
Henry Graham Greene (birth name)
Date of Birth:
October 2, 1904
Place of Birth:
Berkhamsted, England
Date of Death:
April 3, 1991
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Vevey, Switzerland
Education:
Balliol College, Oxford
Awards:
Hawthornden Prize for The Power and the Glory, 1940; Companion of Honour, 1966; Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, 1969; Order of Merit, 1986
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| | The Quiet American
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Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory is generally considered to be Greene's greatest work, but The Quiet American, set in mid-1950s Vietnam, is in many ways his most characteristic. It blends elements of cloak-and-dagger suspense with political and moral observation, bringing "into vivid relief a universal human problem -- the fearful price of innocence" (Atlantic Monthly).
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Mixed Blessings
| The Power and the Glory was inspired by Greene's trip to Mexico to investigate the religious persecution of Catholic priests. The novel was well received by many Catholic readers, including some of Greene's friends in the priesthood, but 14 years after its publication, Greene received word of the "unfavorable verdict" of the Vatican on his work. He wrote a letter explaining that reprint rights belonged to his publishers.
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| | The Power and the Glory
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Graham Greene, John Updike (intro.)
John Updike penned the introduction to this edition of Greene's 1940 work. Of this vivid exploration of corruption and redemption told via the travails of a persecuted priest in 1930s Mexico, novelist John le Carré observed, “Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature.”
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| | The End of the Affair
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Graham Greene
Greene's somber portrait of a tortured love triangle was brought to the silver screen as a feature film directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) and starring Julianne Moore, Ralph Fiennes, and Stephen Rea. Other Greene novels that have become movies:
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