Knowra Graham Greene Graham Greene Graham Greene (1904–1991) was an English novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose fiction joins moral conflict and religious doubt to political upheaval.
The Power and the Glory : A 1940 novel about a fugitive Catholic priest pursued by the state in an unnamed Mexican region. Its hunted priest embodies Greene’s recurring tension between personal weakness and religious grace.
Catholic novel : A novel shaped by Catholic doctrine, moral questions, or the religious experience of its characters. Greene’s fiction repeatedly stages sin, grace, and doubt through Catholic characters and conflicts.
Catholic conversion : The adoption of Catholic belief by a person who was not raised or previously identified as Catholic. Greene converted in 1926, and Catholic belief became a lasting source of fictional conflict.
Carol Reed : An English film director whose films include Odd Man Out, The Third Man, and The Fallen Idol. His collaborations with Greene adapted the novelist’s stories into influential films.
The Third Man (film) : A 1949 British film directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and set in postwar Vienna. Its visual style and moral uncertainty made Greene’s Vienna story a landmark of British cinema.
The Quiet American : A 1955 novel set in Vietnam during the French war, centered on an American idealist and a British journalist. Its political triangle tests Greene’s suspicion of supposedly innocent intervention.
Spy fiction : Fiction centered on espionage, intelligence work, and clandestine political conflict. Greene uses spy plots to expose the personal costs and uncertain motives behind political action.
The Times : A British daily newspaper founded in London in 1785. Greene worked as a sub-editor there before establishing himself as a novelist.
Alexander Korda : A Hungarian-born British film producer and director who founded London Films. Korda’s film work helped connect Greene’s writing to British cinema.
The Fallen Idol : A 1948 film directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, based on Greene’s story The Basement Room. It shows Greene translating a child’s limited understanding into cinematic suspense.
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