Graham Greene by Graham Greene & John R. Macarthur

Author:Graham Greene & John R. Macarthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2019-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

GRAHAM GREENE was born in 1904 in Berkhamsted, the son of a school headmaster and part of the family that owned the Greene King brewery empire. Quickly discovering his love for the written word, he found work as a critic, reporter, novelist, and occasional MI6 operative—a career which took him around the world to locations including Mexico, Sierra Leone, Vietnam, Haiti, and Cuba. Many of these would appear as settings for his feted “Greeneland” novels. He enjoyed huge critical and commercial success in his lifetime, with books such as Brighton Rock (1938) and The End of the Affair (1951) cementing his reputation as a master of both popular and literary forms; many of his works were adapted for cinema. He died in Switzerland in 1991.

ANTHONY BURGESS was born in 1917 in Manchester, and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. A remarkably prolific novelist, critic, playwright, and composer, he is the author of twenty-five works of non-fiction and thirty-three novels—the best known of which, A Clockwork Orange, was published in 1962 and subsequently adapted for cinema by Stanley Kubrick in 1972. He died in 1993.

MARTIN AMIS was born in 1949 in Swansea, the son of writer Kingsley Amis. A novelist, poet, and critic, his best-known works include Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography for his 2000 memoir, Experience.

SIR JOHN MORTIMER (b. 1923) was a dramatist, author, and barrister best known for the television series Rumpole of the Bailey, first shown in 1975. He adapted Graham Greene’s 1980 novel Dr. Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party for the stage in 1982, and John Fowles’s The Ebony Tower in 1984. He was appointed CBE in 1986, and knighted in 1998. He died in 2009.

JOHN R. MACARTHUR is president and publisher of Harper’s Magazine and an award-winning journalist and author. His critically acclaimed books include Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War and The Selling of “Free Trade”: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy. He writes in both English and French and is a regular contributor to The Spectator (UK), Le Monde Diplomatique (France), and Le Devoir (Quebec) among other international media. He lives with his wife and two daughters in New York City.

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