Graham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the
length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists.
Educated atBerkhamstedSchoolandBalliolCollege,Oxford, he started
his career as a sub-editor of theLondonTimes.He began to attract
notice as a novelist with his fourth book,Orient Express,in 1932.
In 1935, he trekked across northernLiberia, his first experience
inAfrica, told inA Journey Without Maps(1936). He converted to
Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on
religious persecution inMexicoin 1938 inThe Lawless Roads,which
served as a background for his famousThe Power and the Glory, one
of several "Catholic" novels (BrightonRock,The Heart of the
Matter,The End of the Affair).During the war he worked for the
British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began
wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in
novels such asThe Quiet American,Our Man in Havana,The
Comedians,Travels with My Aunt,The Honorary Consul,The Human
Factor,Monsignor Quixote,andThe Captain and the Enemy.As well as
his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short
stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography,A
Sort of LifeandWays of Escape, two biographies, and four books for
children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book
reviews toThe Spectatorand other journals, many of which appear in
the late collectionReflections.Most of his novels have been filmed,
includingThe Third Man, which the author first wrote as a film
treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received
the Order of Merit among numerous other awards.
Christopher Hitchens is a widely published polemicist and frequent
radio and TV commentator. He is the author of many books, including
Why Orwell Matters, Letters to a Young Contrarian, The Trial of
Henry Kissinger, as well as books on Cyprus, Kurdistan and
Palestine, including Blaming the Victims coedited with Edward Said.
He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and writes for, among
others, Slate, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Book
Review, and The Washington Post. He lives with his family in
Washington, D.C.
The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century manÆs consciousness
and anxiety. (William Golding)
As comical, satirical, atmospherical an ÆentertainmentÆ as he has
given us. (The Daily Telegraph, London)
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