Perhaps the greatest English author of this century. Perhaps the greatest English author not to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
Eternally controversial, Greene was amazingly prolific and astonishingly consistent in the high quality of his writing. Greene wrote over 25 novels, several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three autobiographies, two biographies, four children's books, hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. His career spanned being sub-editor of Times, a film critic of the Spectator, the literary editor of the Spectator, and working for the Foreign Office - euphemistically.
Some of his greatest novels are The Power and The Glory, The End of the Affair, A Burnt-Out Case, Monsignor Quixote, Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, Our Man in Havana, The Human Factor, Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party.
The grim greyness of the world which Greene created was so starkly real that this fictional world is called Greeneland.
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." William Shakespeare "He will be read and remembered as the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety." William Golding
