Editing Graham Greene (section)

{{Short description|British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904-1991)}}
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| name             = Graham Greene
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| caption          = Greene in 1975
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| birth_name       = Henry Graham Greene
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=yes|1904|10|2}}
| birth_place      = [[Berkhamsted]], [[Hertfordshire]], England
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=yes|1991|4|3|1904|10|2}}
| death_place      = [[Corseaux]], Switzerland
| spouse           = {{marriage|[[Vivien Dayrell-Browning]]|1927|1947|end=separated}}
| partner          = [[Catherine Walston, Lady Walston]] (1946–1966)<br />Yvonne Cloetta (1966–1991)
| children         = 2
| relatives        = [[Raymond Greene]] (brother); [[Graham C. Greene]] (nephew)
| alma_mater       = [[Balliol College, Oxford]]
| occupation       = {{hlist|Writer|journalist}}
| period           = 1925–1991
| genre            = {{hlist|[[Literary fiction]]|[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]]}}
|notable_works = {{unbulleted list|''[[Stamboul Train]]'' (1932)|''[[Brighton Rock (novel)|Brighton Rock]]'' (1938)|''[[The Power and the Glory]]'' (1940)|''[[The Heart of the Matter]]'' (1948)|''[[The End of the Affair]]'' (1951)|''[[The Quiet American]]'' (1955)| ''[[Our Man in Havana]]'' (1958)}}
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'''Henry Graham Greene''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|OM|CH}} (2 October 1904&nbsp;– 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.

Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious [[Catholic literary revival|Catholic novels]], and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] several times.<ref name="svd">{{Cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/a/f028246c-eb8b-3459-ae34-a0fc2731d98d/graham-greene-var-nara-nobelpris-1961 |title=Graham Greene var nära Nobelpris 1961 |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |date=3 January 2012 |language=Swedish|last1=Neuman |first1=Ricki }}</ref><ref name="nobelprize1966">{{Cite web |title=Nomination archive: Graham Greene | date=21 May 2024 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=3628}}</ref><ref name=Prize /> Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. ''[[The Power and the Glory]]'' won the 1941 [[Hawthornden Prize]] and ''[[The Heart of the Matter]]'' won the 1948 [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] and was shortlisted for the [[Best of the James Tait Black]]. Greene was awarded the 1968 [[Shakespeare Prize]] and the 1981 [[Jerusalem Prize]]. Several of his stories have been filmed, some more than once, and he collaborated with filmmaker [[Carol Reed]] on ''[[The Fallen Idol (film)|The Fallen Idol]]'' (1948) and ''[[The Third Man]]'' (1949).

He converted to [[Catholicism]] in 1926 after meeting his future wife, [[Vivien Greene|Vivien Dayrell-Browning]].<ref name=Donaghy1983>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=2TdlLjpyUdQC&pg=PA13|page=13|title=Graham Greene, an Introduction to His Writings|first=Henry J.|last= Donaghy|publisher=Rodopi|date= 1983|isbn=9062035353}}</ref> Later in life he took to calling himself a "Catholic agnostic".<ref name=Sweeney2008>{{Cite book|title = Almost Catholic: An Appreciation of the History, Practice, and Mystery of Ancient Faith|last = Sweeney|first = Jon|publisher = Jossey-Bass|year = 2008|isbn = 978-0787994709|location = United States|page = 23}}</ref>
He died in 1991, aged 86, of [[leukemia]],<ref name=mcgowin /> and was buried in [[Corseaux]] cemetery in [[Switzerland]].<ref name=Swissinfo /> [[William Golding]] called Greene "the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7pVTz46T3cC&q=%22the+ultimate+chronicler+of+twentieth-century+man%27s+consciousness+and+anxiety%22|title=Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present|date=12 May 2010|volume=1|page=218|publisher=Infobase |isbn=9781438116891|access-date=28 January 2021|editor-first= George |editor-last=Stade}}</ref> [[ V. S. Pritchett]] called him "The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings and who understands the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief."<ref>{{cite news| title=The Human Factor in Graham Greene| last=Pritchett| first=V. S.| author-link=V. S. Pritchett| date=February 26, 1978| work=[[The New York Times]]| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/02/26/110937398.html?pageNumber=292}}</ref>