Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.

Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or “entertainments” as he termed them).

He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world.

The Power and the Glory won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and The Heart of the Matter won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black. Greene was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize. Several of his stories have been filmed, some more than once, and he collaborated with filmmaker Carol Reed on The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949).

Books in order of publication:

Novels

The Man Within (Heinemann, 1929)

Stamboul Train (Heinemann, 1932) (also published as Orient Express)

It’s a Battlefield (Heinemann, 1934)

England Made Me (Heinemann, 1935) (also published as The Shipwrecked)

A Gun for Sale (Heinemann, 1936) (also published as This Gun for Hire)

Brighton Rock (Heinemann, 1938)

The Confidential Agent (Heinemann, 1939)

The Power and the Glory (Heinemann, 1940) (also published as The Labyrinthine Ways)

The Ministry of Fear (Heinemann, 1943)

The Heart of the Matter (Heinemann, 1948)

The Third Man (1949) (novella, as a basis for the screenplay)

The End of the Affair (Heinemann, 1951)

The Quiet American (Heinemann, 1955)

Loser Takes All (Heinemann, 1955)

Our Man in Havana (Heinemann, 1958)

A Burnt-Out Case (Heinemann, 1960)

The Comedians (The Bodley Head, 1966)

Travels with My Aunt (The Bodley Head, 1969)

The Honorary Consul (The Bodley Head, 1973)

The Human Factor (The Bodley Head, 1978)

Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party (The Bodley Head, 1980)

Monsignor Quixote (Bodley Head, 1982)

The Tenth Man (The Bodley Head and Anthony Blond, 1985)

The Captain and the Enemy (Reindhart Books, 1988)