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Henry Graham Greene

Male : Novelist, journalist and playwright. Converted to Catholicism 1926. Married Vivienne Dayrell-Browning 1927, but during their 67 years of marriage he had many affairs (with Catherine Walston, Dorothy Glover, Anita Bjork & Yvonne Cloetta). His papers are in Georgetown University
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire

Date of Birth : 1904 Date of Death : 1991 Age : 87

Pseudonyms : Sheila Cousins

Education : Berkhamstead Sch & Balliol College, Oxford
Heinemann unless stated
1925-1930
Babbling April
(1925 Basil Blackwell, Oxford) - poems. c300 copies
[A UK first sold at auction in 1999 for £2760]
The Man Within
(1929) (1929 Doubleday Doran)
UK first offered for £760 in 1999
[Filmed in 1947]
The Name of Action
(1930) (1931 D)

1931-1935
Rumour at Nightfall
(1931) (1932 D)
Stamboul Train
(1932) (in US as "Orient Express" - 1933 D)
[Filmed in 1934 as "Orient Express"]
It's a Battlefield
(1934) (1934 D)
(Ed) The Old School : Essays by Divers Hands (1934 Cape) (1934 Smith)
England Made Me
(1935) (1935 D)
[Filmed in 1972]
The Basement Room & Other Stories
(1935 Cresset Press) - ss
The Bear Fell Free
(1935 Grayson Books, London) - 285 signed

1936-1940
A Gun for Sale
(1936) (in US as "This Gun for Hire" - 1936 D)
[Filmed in 1942 as "This Gun for Hire" & in 1957 as "Short Cut to Hell"]
Journey Without Maps
(1936) (1936 Doubleday) (1948 Pan Books)
Brighton Rock
(1938 Viking NY) (1938)
[Filmed in 1947]
To Beg I am Ashamed
(1938 London) - as Sheila Cousins, with Ronald Matthews
A Confidential Agent
(1939) (1939 V)
24 Stories
(1939 Cresset Press) - with James Laver & Sylvia Townsend-Warner
The Lawless Roads
(1939 Longman) (in US as "Another Mexico" - 1939 Viking, NY)
The Power and the Glory
(1940) (in US "The Labyrinthine Ways" - 1940 Viking)
[Filmed in 1947 as "The Fugitive"]

1941-1950
(In) Men at Work (1941 Penguin New Writing)
British Dramatists
(1942 Collins, Britain in Pictures Series)
The Ministry of Fear
(1943) (1943 V)
[Filmed in 1944]
The Little Train
(1946 Eyre & Spottiswoode) (1958 Lothrop) - Dorothy Craigie
[Published anoymously whilst Greene was a director at E & S]
19 Stories
(1947 Heinemann) (1949 Viking) - ss
The Heart of the Matter
(1948) (1948 V)
[Filmed in 1953]
Why Do I Write : An Exchange of Views with E Bowen & V S Pritchett
(1948 Percival Marshall)
The Third Man
(1950 Viking US)
[Filmed in 1949]
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol
(1950 H)
["The Fallen Idol" filmed in 1948]
The Little Fire Engine
(1950 Parrish) (in US as "The Little Red Fire Engine" - 1952 Lothrop)
Dorothy Craigie

1951-1960
The End of the Affair
(1951) (1951 Viking)
[Filmed in 1954 & 1999]
The Lost Childhood & Other Essays
(1951 E & S) (1952 Viking)
The Little Horse Bus
(1952 Parrish) (1954 Lothrop) - Dorothy Craigie
The Little Steam Roller
(1953 Parrish) (1955 Lothrop) - Dorothy Craigie
The Living Room
(1953) (1954 Viking) - play
Essais Catholiques
(1953 Editions du Seuil, Paris)
21 Stories
(1954 Heinemann) - ss
Loser Takes All
(1955 7/6) (1957 Viking)
[Filmed in 1956 & 1990]
The Quiet American
(1955 13/6) (1956 Viking)
[Filmed in 1957]
The Potting Shed
(1957 Viking) (1958 H) - play
The Spy's Bedside Book
(1957 Hart-Davis) - with Sir Hugh Greene
Our Man in Havana
(1958) (1958 Viking)
[Filmed in 1959]
The Complaisant Lover
(1959 Heinemann) (1961 Viking) - play
A Visit to Morin
(1959 Heinemann) - 250 signed

1961-1970
A Burnt Out Case
(1961) (1961 Viking)
In Search of a Character : Two African Journals
(1961 BH) (1961 Viking)
A Sense of Reality
(1963 BH) (1963 Viking) - ss
The Revenge : An Autbiographical Fragment
(1963)
Carving a Statue
(1964 BH) - play
Victorian Detective Fiction
(1966 Bodley Head) - with Dorothy Glover
The Comedians
(1966 Bodley Head) (1966 V)
[Filmed in 1967]
Victorian Detective Fiction
(1966)
May We Borrow Your Husband ?
(1967 Bodley Head) - Ltd Ed
May we Borrow Your Husband ?
(1967 BH) (1967 V) - ss
Travels with My Aunt
(1969 BH) (1970 V)
[Filmed in 1972]
The Third Man : A Film
(1969 Lorrimer) - screenplay with Carol Reed
Collected Essays
(1969 BH) (1969 Viking)
Mr Visconti : An Extract from Travels with My Aunt
(1969 Bodley Head)
- Edward Ardizzone 300 copies

1971-1975
A Sort of Life
(1971 BH) (1971 S & S) - Autobiography
The Collected Stories
(1972 BH/Heinemann) (1973 Viking) - ss
The Virtue of Disloyalty
(1972 Bodley Head) - 300. 12pp
The Pleasure Dome : The Collected Film Criticism 1935-1940
(1972 S & W) (1972 S & S)
The Portable Graham Greene
(1973 Viking US)
The Honorary Consul
(1973 BH) (1973 V)
[Filmed in 1983]
The Little Train
(1973 Bodley Head) - Edward Ardizzone
The Little Fire Engine
(1973 Bodley Head) - Edward Ardizzone
The Little Horse Bus
(1974 Bodley Head) - Edward Ardizzone
The Little Steamroller
(1974 Doubleday) - Edward Ardizzone
Lord Rochester's Monkey
(1974 BH) (1974 Viking) - biography
(Ed) An Impossible Woman : The Memories of Dottoressa Moor of Capri (1975 BH) (1976 Viking)
Shades of Greene
(1975 BH/Heinemann) - ss
The Return of A J Raffles
(1975 BH) - 250 copies
The Return of A J Raffles
(1975 BH) (1978 S & S) - play

1976-1980
A Wedding Among the Owls
(1977 Bodley Head) - 250. 14pp
The Human Factor
(1978 BH) (1978 S & S)
[Filmed in 1979]
Dr Fischer of Geneva
(1980 BH) (1980 S & S)
How Father Quixote Became a Monsignor
(1980 Sylvester & Orphanos, LA)
- 330 numbered & signed
Ways of Escape
(1980 Lester & Orpen Dennys, Canada) (1980 BH) (1981 S & S)

After 1981
The Great Jowett
(1981 BH) - 525 signed copies. Play
Monsignor Quixote
(1982 Lester & Orpen Dennys, Canada) (1982 BH £5.95) (1982 S & S)
J'Accuse : The Darker Side of Nice
(1982 BH) (1982 S & S)
The Other Man : Conversations with Graham Greene
(1983 BH) (1983 S & S)
- with Marie-Francoise Allain
For Whom the Bell Chimes & Yes and No
(1983 BH) - 775 copies
Yes & No : A Play in One Act
(1984 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 52pp. 12 copies
Yes & No : A Play in One Act
(1984 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 signed & numbered
The Tenth Man
(1985 BH/Blond £6.95) (1985 S & S)
Getting to Know the General
(1985 BH) (1984 S & S)
Collected Short Stories
(1986) - ss
The Captain and the Enemy
(1988 Reinhardt) (1988 Viking $17.95)
The Third Man
(1988 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 500 signed
Why the Epigraph ?
(1989 Nonesuch Press £30) - Ltd Signed Ed 1000
Dear David, Dear Graham, A Bibliophilic Correspondence
(1989 The Alembic Press with the Amate Press, Oxford)
Yours, Etc : Letters to the Press
(1990 Reinhardt) (1990 Viking)
Reflections 1923-1988
(1990 Reinhardt) (1990 Viking)
The Last Word & Other Stories
(1990 Reinhardt £11.95) (1991 Viking) - ss
(Ed David Parkinson) Mornings in the Dark - The Graham Greene Film Reader (1993 Carcanet)

READING
Walter Allen : The Novels of Greene
(1943 Penguin New Writing, xviii)
Kenneth Allott & Miriam Farris : The Art of Greene
(1951)
J D Vann : Graham Greene - A Bibliography
(1970 Kent State UP)
R A Woobe : Graham Greene - A Bibliography & Guide to Research
(1980 Garland US)
A Cassis : Graham Greene - An Annotated Bibliography
(1981)
Graham Green Country
(1986 Pavilion) - paintings by Paul Hogarth
Norman Sherry : The Life of Graham Greene Vol 1 - 1904-39
(1989 Cape £16.95)
Tributes to Graham Greene OM at Memorial Requiem Mass at Westminster Cathedral
(1992 Reinhardt) - 300 copies
Norman Sherry : The Life of Graham Greene Vol 2 - 1939-55
(1994 Cape £25)
Leopoldo Duran : Graham Greene - Friend and Brother
(1994)
Michael Shelden : Graham Green - The Man Within
(1994 Heinemann £20)
W J West : the Quest for Graham Greene
(1997 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Yvonne Cloetta : In Search of a Beginning - My Life with Graham Greene
(2004 Bloomsbury £16.99)
[Yvonne Cloetta died in 2002]
Norman Sherry : The Life of Graham Greene Vol 3 - 1955-1991
(2004 Cape £25)

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