![]() ![]() Greene previously edited Graham Greene: A Life in Letters and is also the author of a biography of Edith Sitwell. Graham Greene is the subject of a new biography, The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene, by Canadian poet and editor Richard Greene. From his early psychoanalysis, to his conversion to Catholicism, his work with British Intelligence and his tormented love affairs, his life was as complicated and eventful as his fiction. Up to his death at 86, in 1991, he witnessed, and wrote about, the key events of modern history. Greene's restless spirit and political engagement frequently took him to the world's hotspots - in Africa, Central America, Southeast Asia and beyond. He made the cover of Time magazine with his controversial 1951 novel The End of the Affair. Graham Greene was one of the most popular and admired English writers of the 20th century. Best known for Brighton Rock, The Quiet American, The Heart of the Matter and his film The Third Man, he was the author of both literary novels and thrillers, as well as nonfiction, memoirs and screenplays. ![]()
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