Graham Greene

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Standard Name: Greene, Graham
Birth Name: Henry Graham Greene
An English novelist of exceptional energy, Graham Greene built a career spanning a dozen genres—most notably more than twenty novels or thrillers, as well as short stories, film reviews, travel books, plays, screenplays, and autobiography. Many of his novels wrestle with issues of belief. His personal correspondence included thousands of letters, and for much of his life he reported as a spy to the British Secret Intelligence Service . His restlessness drew him to dangerous places, adulterous relationships, self-harm, and a belief, infusing his pages, that a focus on squalor makes for an honest portrayal of the world.

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Textual Production Lesley Storm
In 1953 she adapted another work by Graham Greene , this time his novel The Heart of the Matter. The screenplay is set in 1942, and tells the story of a deeply Catholic police...
Textual Production Mary Stewart
MS was bored by modern movements like the anti-novel, the sicks and the beats, but felt there was a place for them: they're trying things out, keeping literature alive and moving.
Stewart, Mary. “Mary Stewart”. Counterpoint, edited by Roy Newquist, George Allen & Unwin , 1965, pp. 561-7.
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She thought her...
Textual Production Patricia Highsmith
PH published a short-story collection, The Snail-Watcher, and Other Stories, in New York, which was published in Britain as Eleven: Short Stories, with a foreword by Graham Greene .
Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Textual Production Patricia Highsmith
Though the ideal cannot normally be achieved, she says, writing a book is really a long continuous process, which, ideally, should be interrupted only by sleep.
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990.
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When she had finished work for the day...
Textual Production Zadie Smith
ZS excels at what could be called appreciation pieces. She published a hyperbolic and loving eulogy on the recently dead Katharine Hepburn in 2003, and a fine assessment of Graham Greene for his centenary in...
Textual Production Sarah Waters
She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
A large collection of Sitwell papers, stemming from all three siblings, is held at the University of Texas at Austin. There are deposits of her letters at the University of Tulsa , Georgetown University
Textual Production Sybille Bedford
SB began reviewing for the New York Review of Books by 1963, and covered a wide range of genres: literary history (a book on Oscar Wilde ), fiction (Graham Greene ), travel writing (...
Wealth and Poverty Muriel Spark
She was assisted during her illness (at the behest of Derek Stanford )
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
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by many friends, and treated without fees by her doctor, also an old friend. Throughout her convalescence she was supported by...

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