biography
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Greene, (Henry) Graham
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–91)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism (1926), and moved to London, where he became a journalist and then a freelance writer. His early novels, beginning with The Man Within (1929), and ‘entertainments’, such as Stamboul Train (1932), use the melodramatic technique of the thriller. In his major novels, central religious issues and moral dilemmas emerge, first apparent in Brighton Rock (1938), and more explicit in The Power and the Glory (1940), The End of the Affair (1951), and A Burnt-Out Case (1961). He also wrote several plays, film scripts (notably, The Third Man, 1949), short stories, and essays, as well as three volumes of autobiography. His plays include The Complaisant Lover (1959). His later works include Dr Fischer of Geneva (1980), Monsignor Quixote (1982), and The Tenth Man (1985). He lived in Antibes, France, for many years. |
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