Graham Greene AKA 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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