AKA Henry Graham Greene

Born: 2-Oct-1904
Birthplace: Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England
Died: 3-Apr-1991
Location of death: Vevey, Switzerland
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Critic

Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Third Man

Military service: Foreign Office (WWII, under Kim Philby)

Slept with forty-seven prostitutes.

Father: Charles Henry Greene (school headmaster)
Mother: Marion Raymond Greene (first cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson)
Wife: Vivien Dayrell-Browning (m. 1927)
Girlfriend: Anita Bjork (Swedish actress, romance during 1930's)
Girlfriend: Dorothy Glover (costume designer, romance 1938 until late 1940's)
Sister: Elisabeth (agent with MI6)
Brother: Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (BBC correspondent, b. 1910)
Mistress: Dorothy Glover
Mistress: Catherine Walston (wife of Henry Walston, 1946-60)
Girlfriend: Dorothy Glover (1960-)
Girlfriend: Yvonne Cloetta

    Converted to Catholicism
    Suicide Attempt multiple
    Nervous Breakdown
    Risk Factors: Cocaine

Author of books:
Babbling April (1925, poetry anthology)
The Man Within (1929, novel)
Stamboul Train (1932, novel)
The Brighton Rock (1938, novel)
The Confidential Agent (1939, novel)
The Power and the Glory (1940, novel)
The Heart of the Matter (1948, novel)
After Two Years (1949, novel, twenty-five copies printed)
The Third Man (1949, novel)
The End of the Affair (1951, novel)
The Quiet American (1955, novel)
A Sort of Life (1971, autobiography)
Ways of Escape (1980, autobiography)

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