Graham Greene

Journalist / Novelist / Playwright

Portrait of G.Greene by Margaret Wood

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Graham Green's home 14 Clapham Common, North side London

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Plaque on Birthplace

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Berkhamsted School, Headforshire

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Balloli College

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Achill Head.

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Achill Island, Co. Mayo

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Antibes, France.

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Vevey Switzerland

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Filming at graveside for Documentary Dangerous Edge.

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Journalist / Novelist / Playwright

He was one of the foremost authors of the twentieth century. He was a novelist, short-story author, playwright also journalist. He explored the ambivalent moral also political issue of the modern world. He had an avid interest in the workings or intrigue of international politics & espionage. [i]

Family

Graham Greene’s parents were members of well-known brewers the Greene King family who amongst them included many bankers & statesmen. His parents were actually first cousins. His mother was a cousin of Robert Lewis Stevenson. Henry Graham Greene was born into that distinguished family on 2^nd October 1904. He was the fourth child of six children. His father, Charles Henry Greene was a teacher: he later held the position of headmaster during 1910 of the Berkhamsted School, Headforshire, England. His mother was Marion Raymond Greene. [ii]

Graham Greene was known as Henry Graham Greene in his youth. He was born on 2^nd October1904 at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire in England. [iii]

Graham Green’s father was the headmaster of Berkhamsted School at which Greene attended for several years. (Amy Tikkanen ) [iv]

Green studied at Balliol College, Oxford according to this site: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Graham-Greene

Delightful Reading

As a young child he spent several summers with his uncle, Sir William at Harston House. He described his delight when he found he could read! ‘It was at Harston I found quite suddenly I could read – the book was ‘Dixon Brett, Detective.’ I didn’t want anyone to know of my discovery, so I read only in secret, in a remote attic, but my mother must have spotted what I was at all the time, for she gave me Ballanlyna’s The Coral Island for the train journey home…’ He attended as a boarder at Berkhamsted School until age sixteen years when he became a day pupil there. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a second class degree in history during 1925. [v]