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Graham Greene

Graham GreeneAKA Henry Graham Greene

Born: 2-Oct-1904
Birthplace: Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England
Died: 3-Apr-1991
Location of death: Vevey, Switzerland
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Cimetière des Monts-de-Corsier, Corseaux, Switzerland

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Critic

Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Third Man

Military service: Foreign Office (WWII, under Kim Philby)

Slept with forty-seven prostitutes.

Father: Charles Henry Greene (school headmaster)
Mother: Marion Raymond Greene (first cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson)
Sister: Elisabeth (agent with MI6)
Brother: Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (BBC correspondent, b. 1910)
Wife: Vivien Dayrell-Browning (m. 1927, sep. 1948)
Girlfriend: Dorothy Glover (costume designer, romance 1938 until late 1940s)
Mistress: Catherine Walston (wife of Harry Walston, 1946-60)
Girlfriend: Dorothy Glover (1960-)
Girlfriend: Anita Bjork (Swedish actress, romance during late1950s)
Girlfriend: Yvonne Cloetta

    University: Balliol College, Oxford University

    MI6
    Converted to Catholicism 1926
    Suicide Attempt multiple
    Nervous Breakdown
    Order of Merit 1986
    Libel Nice, France
    Risk Factors: Bipolar Disorder, Cocaine

Author of books:
Babbling April (1925, poetry)
The Man Within (1929, novel)
Stamboul Train (1932, novel)
Brighton Rock (1938, novel)
The Confidential Agent (1939, novel)
The Power and the Glory (1940, novel)
The Heart of the Matter (1948, novel)
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol (1950, collection)
The End of the Affair (1951, novel)
The Quiet American (1955, novel)
A Sort of Life (1971, memoir)
Ways of Escape (1980, memoir)
Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement (1984)



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