Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene was born on 2 October 1904 in England. He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting Vivien Dayrell-Browning, his future wife, though later in life he called himself a "Catholic agnostic". Across 67 years he wrote over 25 novels, splitting them into serious works and what he called "entertainments" — thrillers that still carried weight. The Power and the Glory won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize; The Heart of the Matter took the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He collaborated with Carol Reed on The Fallen Idol and The Third Man, both in the late 1940s, and many of his…