The Life of Graham Greene : Volume 1 : 1904-1939

Author(s): Norman Sherry

Biography

The author was granted complete access to Graham Greene's letters and diaries, and given the novelist's consent. This volume, the first of three, takes the narrative to the beginning of World war 2. "A superb biography - surprisingly penetrating, and compulsively readable" - Graham Lord

General Information

  • : 9781844137534
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : vinteb
  • : 1.25
  • : 01 September 2004
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Norman Sherry
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823.912
  • : 816
  • : 36

More About The Product

'Probably the best biography ever written of a living author.' Philip French, Listener 20040315

Norman Sherry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, is also the author of Conrad's Eastern World, Conrad's Western World, Charlotte and Emily Bront- and Jane Austen. The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II: 1939-1955 appeared as one of the Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas, and Literature, New York: Random House, 1998, and was chosen by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as 'one of the best eleven books of 1995.'