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Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

"One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction" Daily Telegraph "He taught us to look at each other with new eyes. I don't suppose his influence will ever disappear" -- Auberon Waugh Independent "No serious writer of this century had more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene" The Times "A tour de force... The realist and the romantic struggle with each other in this book, making it a kind of mental battlefield, inducing a sense of breathlessness and urgency" L. P. Hartley "Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature" -- John Le Carre