The Life of Graham Greene, 1904-1939 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman Sherry
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1904-1939
- Setting: England, Liberia, and Mexico
- Principal Characters: (henry) Graham Greene, Lionel A. Carter, Vivien Dayrell-browning, Barbara Greene, Charles Henry Greene, Herbert Greene, Hugh Greene, Marion Greene, Raymond Greene, Kenneth Richmond, Father Trollope, A. H. Wheeler
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Revolutionaries, Love or romance, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Loneliness, Letters, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Opium
- Locales: Mexico, England, Liberia
Norman Sherry is the first to attempt a full-scale biography of Graham Greene. Heretofore those seriously interested in locating information about Greene’s life have had to wade patiently through a host of fragmentary sources: Greene’s own essays (notably “The Lost Childhood,” “The Revolver in the Corner Cupboard,” and his introductions to the Collected Edition of his writings, gathered in 1980 as Ways of Escape); his travel books such as Journey Without Maps: A Travel Book (1936), The Lawless Roads: A Mexican Journal (1939), In Search of a Character:...
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