Richard Greene is a professor of English, and the director of the graduate program in creative writing at the University of Toronto. Editor of Graham Greene: A Life in Letters, he lives in Toronto, Ontario.
"Diligently researched... [A]n astute and sympathetic biography."
-- D.J. Taylor - Wall Street Journal
"Authoritative and thoroughly researched, while being superbly
readable... [The Unquiet Englishman] should long serve as
the standard biography [of Graham Greene]." -- Dan Cryer - Boston
Globe
"[Richard Greene] displays an authoritative grasp of his subject.
In a brisk and transparent style, he covers every chapter of Graham
Greens' tumultuous life." -- Mary Ann Gwinn - Minneapolis Star
Tribune
"As [Graham] Greene's rate of book and film production increases,
the narrative becomes a dizzying merry-go-round of travel,
publication, sex, alcohol, religion, money, adultery,
self-loathing, intrigue and betrayal...[The Unquiet
Englishman] bounds along with fluency, clarity and wry
humour." -- John Walsh - Sunday Times
"Thank goodness for Richard Greene, whose splendid one-volume
biography...conjures [Graham Greene] in all his perplexing
variety...Cogently argued and happily free of jargon, [The
Unquiet Englishman] offers a long-needed antidote to 'dirty
linen' biographers who have sought to expose a darker shade of
Greene and, in consequence, lost sight of the books. At last Graham
Greene has the biographer he deserves." -- Ian Thomson - Evening
Standard
"Cause for celebration...[Richard Greene] gives us a nicely written
and well-judged cradle-to-grave portrait that needed to be
conventional and unshowy, and is all the better for it...[He] has
mastered a tremendous amount of material." -- Nicholas Shakespeare
- Spectator
"[Richard Greene] writes briskly and engagingly, with a wry wit and
an endearing fondness for trivia and puns...[Graham] Greene emerges
from these pages in three dimensions, as a uniquely fascinating
man...We badly needed a sympathetic but clearheaded life of Greene,
and this book fills the gap admirably." -- Jake Kerridge - Sunday
Telegraph
"Insightful... Though the narrative never loses its focus on Greene
as an artist, readers will learn much about the daunting
ideological barriers that Greene pushed through to craft his art...
A complete portrait of a many-faceted titan." -- Booklist (starred
review)
"Greene's life story is both interesting and fascinating, and this
balanced account offers the best reading of how his personal life
infused and enriched his work." -- Library Journal (starred
review)
"Vivid...it's awe-inspiring that Greene fit so much into a single
life, and it's no small feat that his latest biographer has so
skillfully captured that life in a single work." -- Publishers
Weekly
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