Graham Greene facts for kids

Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (2 October 1904 - 3 April 1991) was a British writer.

Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. He graduated with a second-class degree from Balliol College, Oxford. He was a journalist before he became a novelist.

Greene wrote novels, autobiographies, travel books, plays, screenplays, short stories and children's books. His Catholicism influenced his work.

Greene had bipolar disorder. He died of leukaemia in Vevey, Switzerland.

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  Greene was born in Berkhamsted School where his father taught

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  Gravestone at Corseaux, Switzerland