Ministry of higher education, science and innovation republic of uzbekistan

Early life

Graham Greene 2nd of October in the year 1904 in St. John’s House, Hertfordshire. He was born to Charles Henry Greene who was a housemaster at a boarding house and Marion Raymond Greene.
He also started his studies by attending the same school his father was a housemaster at, but later he became a headmaster in the year 1910.
Graham Greene did not have the best of childhood as he was often bullied and got depressed profoundly. Following the same, he made several attempts to commit suicide as also highlighted in his autobiography for which he was also sent for psychoanalysis for a period that lasted six months and on his return he was also made a day scholar.
While he was at Oxford, he used to suffer periodic bouts of depression and was of a timid nature and usually kept things to himself. He graduated from the university with a degree in History with a second class in the year 1925.
Graham Greene’s first publication came when he was an undergraduate at the Balliol College, Oxford which was a poem titled “Babbling April” but it was a poorly received volume.
After graduating from Oxford, he worked for some time as a private tutor and later he shifter to journalism working at Nottingham Journal and then progressing to becoming a sub-editor with the Times.
His first published novel came out in the year 1929 by the name of ‘The Man Within’ which received a favorable reception. It also strengthened his decision to leave the job as a sub-editor and thereby work as a full-time novelist.
But to his sheer disappointment, his next two books were unsuccessful. His first big success came in the year 1932 when he wrote a novel by the name of “Stamboul Train,” and it was received so nicely that it was also adopted by the Book Society and later made into a film by the name of Orient Express in the year 1934.
His reputation as a novelist just grew after this success, and by the year 1950, he was regarded as one of the finest writers of his generation. The only problem that arose with time was the difficulty to make a distinction between entertainment and novel, and his last works which can be categorized as entertainment was ‘One Man in Havana’ in the year 1958. Besides that, he also wrote various short stories and plays, and his first play made a debut in the year 1953 by the name of “The Living Room.”
Graham Greene was an agnostic. He met Vivien Dayrell Browning while corresponding as she had written to him to correct him on the point of Catholic doctrine and following the same; he fell for her and began to think about marrying her. They got married on the 15th of October in the year 1927 in London.
The couple had two children from the wedlock, i.e., Lucy Caroline who was born in 1933 and Francis who was born in 1936. Though he had left the family in the year 1947, they were never divorced as Vivien refused to do so. Throughout the entire span of their marriage, Graham Greene had several affairs and sexual encounters.
In his final years, Graham Greene regarded his books as his children and had very rough last few years. He suffered from manic depression and was also involved in a lawsuit which he lost. But he died in the year 1991, on April 3 at the age of 86 while suffering from leukemia⁷.

Novels and other works

Graham Greene published his first novel in 1929, and with the publication of The Man Within, he began devoting all his time to writing. Greene quit his full-time post and supplemented his income with freelance jobs. Along with working for The Spectator, he also co-edited the magazine, Night and Day. In 1937, the magazine closed down after Greene wrote a review of Wee Willie Winkie, a film starring Shirley Temple. In the review, Greene wrote that Temple displayed "a certain adroit coquetry which appealed to middle-aged men." This comment caused the magazine to lose a libel case, and it remains the first criticism in the entertainment industry of the sexualization of children.
His first real success came with the publication of Stamboul Train in 1932 (adapted into the film, Orient Express, in 1934). He met with other success as he continued to write, often having two very distinct audiences. There was the audience that loved Greene's thrillers and suspense novels like Brighton Rock and there was a completely different audience who admired Greene's genius in literary novels such as The Power and the Glory. Considered the best novel of his career, it was both acclaimed (Hawthornden Prize winner in 1941) and condemned (by the Vatican). While Greene was able to divide his works into two genres, his reputation as a literary writer gained him more recognition.
Greene's diverse talent was recognized when his mystery/suspense novels began to be valued as much as his more serious novels. Such works as The Human Factor, The Comedians, Our Man in Havana, and The Quiet American showed Greene's ability to create an entertaining and thrilling story and combine it with serious insight, depth of character, and universal themes.
With the success of his books, Greene expanded his literary repertoire to short stories and plays. He also wrote many screenplays, his most famous one being The Third Man. In addition, several of his books were made into films, including 1947's Brighton Rock and The Quiet American(2002), set in Vietnam and starring Michael Caine (for which Caine was nominated for an Oscar).
Greene was considered for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times, but he never received the prize. Some attributed this to the very fact that he was so popular, as the scholarly elite disliked this trait. His religious themes were also thought to have played a role in whether or not he was awarded the honor, as it might have alienated some of the judges.