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Screenwriter, Book Author, Short Story Author Born: October 2, 1904 in Berkhamsted, England Death: April 3, 1991 in Vevey, Switzerland Biography:Oxford-educated author/essayist "Graham Greene" published his first major novel, Stamboul Train, in 1932; two years later, the novel became the first of a multitude of Greene works to be adapted for the screen. Incredibly prolific, Greene divided his books into two classifications. His "Entertainments" were his bread-and-butter mysteries, espionage thrillers and psychological melodramas, examples of which include "This Gun for Hire" and "Our Man in Havana"; and his "Novels" were such deeper and (to him) more meaningful works as "The Power and the Glory" (filmed by "John Ford" as "The Fugitive" in 1948) and "Brighton Rock". From 1935 to 1940, he was film critic for The Spectator, gaining fame for championing such "populist" entertainers as Laurel and Hardy. During this period, he also served as literary editor of "Night and Day".
While Greene adapted many of his own fictional works for films--with... Full Biography
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