This is a very brief biography of Graham green. Do you want to know more about the life of this great man? Then read on.

Graham Green's Career

To Henry green understanding that it will be the most important for him, it's early. Although he did not deny himself the pleasure of groping and calculating. Henry green, the fourth heir of the family of Charles, Director Berkhamsted school, and Marion, cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson, before he began to climb the shelves of the paternal library rather big and pull out the adventurous book of Kipling, haggard, and Hashes. Unbearably drawn not only to jump on the prairies, solve the mysteries of lost civilizations and save someone, but also to take up the pen. Moreover, wars and catastrophes no nearby is not planned, and the soul required adventure and feats. "While I could not read, I was not threatened: the wheels have not yet set in motion. And now the future has surrounded me from all sides with books on the shelves, waiting for the moment when I choose it." Impressed by what he read, he quickly wrote the story, sent it to the magazine "Star" and was stunned by the publication and the fee in three guineas. "On that summer day, I did not find in the "Tick of the clock" no flaw and reveled in glory for the first and last time in my life."

College, Oxford University green his work has not stopped and began to print in the student magazines and Newspapers, short stories, essays and poems. The father gave him a generous allowance of two hundred and fifty pounds, which the son, having passed the exams well, soon reduced through his scholarship. The money was needed, journalism fascinated, and he settled first in "Notingham journal" and then in "the times", which seems to be a happy hunting ground for critics and editing. Soon green decided — he has something to say to people in addition to short articles-and took up his first novel "the Man inside". "There's a man inside me who's angry with me." Circulation of eight thousand copies encouraged, journalism, though with regret, but was pushed aside until better times, and first in England, and then around the world began his triumphant March Writer. However, no one then really do not understand, and the majority expressed its "Fi". Greene, whose uncertainty was always ready to spill out, first despaired, was about to throw the thankless task to hell, but then again sat down behind the Desk. As soon as the book was published, critics flew with honed feathers at the ready. Some craved and hesitated, not really knowing how to respond to the Green's literary experiments, called created in his books a special artistic world "Greenlandic", considering and subjects, and characters, wandering through life is very contradictory ways, ghostly and detached from reality. "The world that I, according to people, create, this Greenlandic-because it does not exist! I don't deal with fantasy and imagination — just facts! But I know that it is useless to argue with them, they will not believe in the world, which is not noticed around," green answered them, who traveled the world as a reporter, visited the very thick of things and learned how much a pound was. Others admired the elegance of the syllable, the rhythm of the phrases and the truth of life in his books. He himself considered some of his novels like "Istanbul Express", "Department of fear" and "Assassin" an entertainment reading, assured that he wrote them specifically for the needs of the day, and if not taken seriously, then treated with fatherly love.

Green's fees were modest, and the cost of scripts and reviews left much to be desired, but he sometimes wrote two books at once: one — in the morning, the other — in the evenings, increasing efficiency with amphetamines. Green said about his occupation: "Writer's work is a form of therapy, and I do not understand how to escape from the madness, anguish and panic that await a person at every step, those who do not write books, do not compose music, do not paint pictures."

Graham Green's Character
Green since childhood has enough reasons to run away from the people into the ravines and thickets of Heather. Mother, sitting comfortably, brought the impressionable young Henry to tears, reading terrible stories about abandoned and dead children, and the father-the Director, holding a hand on pulse of school life, insisted on the timely report on all violations. Classmates also were not lazy and so exhausted nerves Director child that it, sleeping in the school barracks, and then thought about suicide. And not only thought, and made several attempts, reducing suicide with the help of sawing of the legs with a blunt penknife, belladonna eating, drinking poison drugs stashed from older bottles and swallowing handfuls of aspirin. But, apparently, at the top it was decided that green still had things in this world. So that game of Russian roulette with a revolver, which the future master of English literature sometimes amused already at a young age, he went out without a hole in the skull. "Childhood is the beginning of all distrust. They make fun of you, and then you start making fun of others."

In the life of each representative of the sign periodically arise personal mini-revolution, when the desire to get on the armored car, to declare their freedoms and put an ultimatum becomes unbearably burning. Green arranged the first of them at school, writing a letter to his parents that he intends to sit in the forest BlackBerry shelter until they will not release him from the nightmares of school life. The older Greens finally paid attention to their suffering child, fed, warmed, how to rinse his brains at psychoanalysis sessions and sent him to College.

"Manic-depressive psychosis, as my grandfather, such a diagnosis would put me today, and no psychoanalysis could not cure me," wrote Henry green in his autobiography. Escape from boredom, he traveled the world in search of adventure, had wandered into the dangerous corners of Africa, meddled in the leper colony of the Congo, traveled to Vietnam, lived in Panama, traveled to Mexico and worked in Indochina, trying to go everywhere where you heard the shots and raised the rebellion. However, with the beginning of the Second world war restless writer did not perk up, did not rush into battle, and found more and more excuses to "skew" from mobilization. As it turned out, large-scale military operations attracted him to a lesser extent, because those born under the sign of Libra prefer to guerrilla. They do not feed bread — give only to cling to the keyhole or to inflict some other ambush. Over time, it turned out that green espionage in General in the blood: uncle and one of the sisters worked for British intelligence, and the older brother collaborated with the Japanese. There was talk that green was engaged in the customs inspection of ships, have taken the initiative to organize mobile brothels to gather information from officers in West Africa and were friendly with Kim Philby, head of British intelligence and a Soviet agent. By the way, with communism green was long on a short leg — in nineteen years, back in Oxford, he became a candidate for Communist party members and even managed to pay contributions.

In his novels, green wrote characters from relatives and friends, shamelessly giving them full similarity, and in the articles drove through all who passed by. Steamroller its critics are not left alone even young American actress that Greene was accused of an ambiguous coquetry. However, I had to pay a large fine and hold a grudge against the United States, but what can not be done for the sake of a word! Some of the biographers considered it to be that gift, calling on readers to throw off pink glasses: "They do not see — or do not want to see — that he is an anti-Semite, an enemy of Catholicism and a misogynist and that he often allows himself to make jokes at them". And then he agreed that, no matter how unpleasant his human weaknesses were, even they could not overshadow the merits of green as an artist.

Graham Green's Personal

Eighteen-year-old green was tormented by desires, and he continuously fell in love with his cousin, then a waitress from Oxford, then a governess younger brother and sister. The girl was older than green for ten years, but it did not prevent her to throw letters with him and flirt in full, until she finally turned on the brain and realized that all these secret kisses would not end well. It reminded of itself after a good thirty years, asking for tickets to the show, green wrote later in his autobiography that it was stronger than the pounding of his heart.

At twenty-three he first got passionate letters and then married a nineteen-year-old employee of the publishing company Vivian Dayrell-Browning, but to be fruitful and multiply flatly refused, claiming that hates children. And Vivien, a Catholic to the bone, was one of those girls who could only be driven into a marital bed by a whip. An oral agreement was concluded that the family is a family, but the bedrooms are separate and the relationship is purely fraternal. No more than. They said that Vivien even wanted to hedge, to certainly, and dragged green to his mother, so that she adopted him, but then the future classic was adamant.

He treated his wife with tenderness, devoted books to her and even stepped on his throat to his beliefs, made concessions and created two children. However, he often lived apart from his family, the plant lovers, or just frequented the brothels. Despite such oddities, the marriage lasted for many years and ordered to live long only during the Second world war.

Mistresses, among whom there were married matrons and mothers with many children, always hung around the green. One of them, a bold, plump Dorothy Glover, with whom Greene had rented an apartment, he even introduced me to his wife. The other, the eccentric, the beautiful lady Catherine Walston, the wife of a wealthy landowner flexible and big fan of creativity grin, she broke into his life and he took matters into his own hands, asked him to become godfather at the baptism ceremony in the Catholic Church. Religious beliefs did not prevent these two true Catholics violently to surrender to love bold experiments, and also to send out vzgrustnut Dorothy and put an end to the marriage with Vivienne. While the case had not intervened, the husband of lady Catherine and urged revel in the passion of a couple to order.

Green was surrounded by people but always felt lonely. He was considered a misogynist, but with him there were always women who loved him. He was well-off, famous and successful, but considered himself not happy enough. He lived eighty-six years, but once said that " long life does not mean many years of life."