Graham greene havana6/1/2023 Evelyn Waugh singled out for praise the new coolly cinematic quality of his style, but he is now most known for a sort of atheistic Catholicism (George Orwell sneers that Greene thinks "there is something rather distingué in being damned Hell is a sort of high-class nightclub, entry to which is reserved for Catholics only"). Perhaps the ultimate moralist thriller-writer, Greene had a facility for combining literary observation with populist plot, and himself divided his books into serious fiction (The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American) and "entertainments" (Brighton Rock, Our Man in Havana). He was sued by Twentieth Century Fox for criticising Shirley Temple. Sub-editor at the Times from 1926 to 1930 before leaving to make his living from writing the Secret Intelligence Service sent him to Sierra Leone during the second world war (see The Heart of the Matter) and he later worked under Kim Philby. Balliol College, Oxford (modern history) Greene says he spent his time drunk and debt-ridden, but he found time to publish a book of verse, Babbling April (1925).
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