Graham Greene

Graham Greene (1904 – 1991)  Graham Greene exemplifies the thorny path of faith in the century that produced two world wars, the nuclear bomb, and more martyrs for the Catholic faith than all twenty previous centuries combined. However, unlike Merton, Greene explored this torturous route as a layman and one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, essayists, and critics. Greene was born into a family of respected academics. Despite (or due to) the fact that his father was headmaster at his prestigious private school, Greene was bullied and teased mercilessly and found refuge only in literature. At Oxford, he read history, dallied with Communism, and tried to write poetry. In 1926, while a struggling writer, he converted to Catholicism before marrying Vivien Dayrell-Browning. Success came to Greene in the 1930s with novels like The Man Within and Stamboul Train. Greene’s literary career soared in the 1940s and never really left the stratosphere in terms of his exploration of the d