(1904–91), English novelist; full name Henry Graham Greene. The moral paradoxes he saw in his Roman Catholic faith underlie much of his work. Notable works: Brighton Rock (1938), The Power and the Glory (1940), and The Third Man (written as a screenplay, and filmed in 1949; novel 1950).
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Greene, Graham
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(1904–91), English novelist; full name Henry Graham Greene. The moral paradoxes he saw in his Roman Catholic faith underlie much of his work. Notable works: Brighton Rock (1938), The Power and the Glory (1940), and The Third Man (movie 1949; novel 1950).