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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