Graham Greene

Graham Greene was born in 1904 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, where his father was headmaster of the school he attended. He was unhappy at school and studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as a journalist for The Times, and in 1926 he became a Roman Catholic, the faith of his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning. After the success of his first novel, The Man Within (1929), he wrote full time. He traveled widely, often to places in conflict, and his journeys in Mexico during the persecution of the church there led to The Power and the Glory (1940), about a hunted 'whisky priest'. During the Second World War he worked for the British intelligence service MI6 in Sierra Leone. His novels include Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, The Quiet American (1955), set in Vietnam, A Burnt-Out Case, set in a leper colony in the Congo, and the comic Travels with My Aunt. He called some of his books 'entertainments', such as The Third Man. He died in Switzerland in 1991.

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Faith: An agnostic who was received into the Catholic Church in 1926; Catholic themes run through his novels. Source: Wikipedia