About the Author

Norman Sherry is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Mitchell distinguished professor of literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. In addition to the first two volumes of The Life of Graham Greene, he is the author of Conrad's Eastern World, Conrad's Western World, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, and Jane Austen.

Reviews

"If you care about modern literature, and the prickly, committed writer ... if you care about God or England or the political twentieth century, you will need this biography." --Chicago Sun-Times"Sherry has accomplished his task by virtually reliving Greene's life, traveling himself to the out-of-the-way places that Greene visited . . . interviewing an army of Old Boys and colonial hands, digging into improbable archives, gathering everything together . . . Extraordinarily well-constructed." --Samuel Hynes, The Times Literary Supplement"Rich with fascinating, dramatic detail ... Greene's prodigious energies and inspirations are well matched by Norman Sherry's intelligence, sympathy, and powers of analysis." --Joyce Carol Oates

If you care about modern literature, and the prickly, committed writer ... if you care about God or England or the political twentieth century, you will need this biography. Chicago Sun-Times Sherry has accomplished his task by virtually reliving Greene s life, traveling himself to the out-of-the-way places that Greene visited . . . interviewing an army of Old Boys and colonial hands, digging into improbable archives, gathering everything together . . . Extraordinarily well-constructed. Samuel Hynes, The Times Literary Supplement Rich with fascinating, dramatic detail ... Greene s prodigious energies and inspirations are well matched by Norman Sherry s intelligence, sympathy, and powers of analysis. Joyce Carol Oates"

``The journeys Greene made, I made,'' boasts Sherry. Besides tracking chronic traveler Greene, Sherry utilizes Greene's journals and correspondence as well as interviews with his friends and his estranged wife, Vivien. The picture that emerges is one of an atheist who converted to Catholicism for passion's sake, a painfully sensitive youth who transformed himself into ``one of the finest novelists of his generation.'' This first of a projected two-volume biography concludes with the composition of Greene's masterpiece, The Power and the Glory . Few living authors have received the attention Sherry lavishes on Greene, and few have deserved it more. Essential for collections of modern literature.-- Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id. correction: Please note that the publication date of Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789-1795, reviewed in LJ 4/1/89, has been changed. The book will be published in July or August.

"If you care about modern literature, and the prickly, committed writer ... if you care about God or England or the political twentieth century, you will need this biography." --Chicago Sun-Times"Sherry has accomplished his task by virtually reliving Greene's life, traveling himself to the out-of-the-way places that Greene visited . . . interviewing an army of Old Boys and colonial hands, digging into improbable archives, gathering everything together . . . Extraordinarily well-constructed." --Samuel Hynes, The Times Literary Supplement"Rich with fascinating, dramatic detail ... Greene's prodigious energies and inspirations are well matched by Norman Sherry's intelligence, sympathy, and powers of analysis." --Joyce Carol Oates
If you care about modern literature, and the prickly, committed writer ... if you care about God or England or the political twentieth century, you will need this biography. Chicago Sun-Times Sherry has accomplished his task by virtually reliving Greene s life, traveling himself to the out-of-the-way places that Greene visited . . . interviewing an army of Old Boys and colonial hands, digging into improbable archives, gathering everything together . . . Extraordinarily well-constructed. Samuel Hynes, The Times Literary Supplement Rich with fascinating, dramatic detail ... Greene s prodigious energies and inspirations are well matched by Norman Sherry s intelligence, sympathy, and powers of analysis. Joyce Carol Oates"