Graham Greene: the ugly Englishman? (two biographies present differing views of the late author)

U.S. News & World Report | October 31, 1994| | Copyright

Graham Greene thrived on stealth in his novels and his private life. "If anybody ever tries to write a biography of me," he once wrote, "how complicated they are going to find it and how misled they are going to be." But his zealous determination to obscure his tracks--he even wrote some of his love letters in code--has merely driven scholars to strive to uncover them with equal zeal.

Three years after his death, it is Greene season in London and will be soon in America. Four fat volumes have recently come out about the man whose imagination stretched from literary ...

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