Greene, (Henry) Graham
Greene, (Henry) Graham ( 1904 – 91 ),novelist and playwright, educated at Berkhamsted School, where his father was headmaster, then at Balliol College, Oxford; a book of verse, Babbling April ( 1925 ), was published while he was still at Oxford. He joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1926 , married in 1927 , and was from 1926 to 1930 on the staff of The Times , which he left in order to attempt to make a living as a writer. His first three novels ( 1929 – 31 ), which he later disclaimed, made little impression, but Stamboul Train ( 1932 ) sold well and was followed by many increasingly successful novels, short stories, books of reportage and travel, plays, children's books, etc. Greene describes his own early years in A Sort of Life ( 1971 ), which gives a vivid impression of a manic-depressive temperament tempted by deadly nightshade and Russian roulette, and a literary...
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