The Life of Graham Greene, 1955-1991 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman Sherry
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1955-1991
- Setting: London, New York, Vietnam, Cuba, Congo, Haiti, Capri, Antibes, Paraguay, Argentina, Panama, Israel, Nicaragua, Moscow, and Switzerland
- Principal Characters: Graham Greene, Anita Bjork, Yvonne Cloetta, Father Leopoldo Duran, Vivien Greene, General Omar Torrijos Herrera, Lady Catherine Walston, Evelyn Waugh
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, 1980’s, Novelists, England or English people, 1990’s, Great Britain
- Locales: New York, Haiti, London, England, Cuba, Argentina, Israel, Vietnam, Moscow, Russia, Paraguay, Switzerland, Capri, Italy, Congo, Panama, Nicaragua
When Graham Greene selected Norman Sherry to be his official biographer in 1976, Sherry could not have known what difficulties lay ahead of him. Greene had admired Sherry's meticulously detailed accounts of Joseph Conrad's career, and he pointedly exacted from the biographer a promise to travel to all the places where the novelist had set a major novel: a truly daunting task, as it turned out. In upholding his end of the bargain, Sherry went seriously into debt, suffered several tropical illnesses—including a bad case of dysentery contracted in the same rural Mexican village where...
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