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Graham Greene was born in Hertfordshire in 1904. While at Balliol College, Oxford he published his first book of verse. He continued to write throughout his lifetime, and served with the Secret Intelligence Service during the Second World War. He was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. Among the many people who paid tribute to him on his death was Kingsley Amis: 'He will be missed all over the world. Until today, he was our greatest living novelist.' He died in 1991.
He taught us to look at each other with new eyes. I don't suppose his influence will ever disappear -- Auberon Waugh * Independent * 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 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 One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction * Daily Telegraph *
