CE

Graham Greene: Collected Essays (London: Bodley Head, 1969).

CCE

Graham Greene: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Samuel Hynes (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973).

CS

Graham Greene: Collected Stories (London: Bodley Head and Heinemann, 1972).

GGFR

The Graham Greene Film Reader: Mornings in the Dark, ed. David Parkinson (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1993).

IS

In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (London: Bodley Head, 1961).

Life

Norman Sherry: The Life of Graham Greene (London: Cape; Vol. I, 1989; Vol. II, 1994).

MW

Michael Shelden: Graham Greene: The Man Within (London: Heinemann, 1994).

OM

The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene, ed. Marie-Françoise Allain (London: Bodley Head, 1983).

PD

Graham Greene: The Pleasure-Dome: The Collected Film Criticism 1935–1940, ed. John Russell Taylor (London: Seeker & Warburg, 1972).

PG

Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (London: Heinemann, 1940).

R

Graham Greene: Reflections (London: Reinhardt, 1990).

SL

Graham Greene: A Sort of Life (London: Bodley Head, 1971).

WE

Graham Greene: Ways of Escape (London: Bodley Head, 1980).

GREENE’S LIFE

OTHER EVENTS

1904

Graham Greene born (2 October) at Berkhamsted, Herts.

Russo-Japanese War (until 1905).

1910

Father becomes Headmaster of Berkhamsted School.

Death of Edward VII. Accession of George V.

1912

Enters Berkhamsted School.

Titanic sinks.

1914

Great War begins.

1917

Russian Revolution.

1918

Boarder at Berkhamsted School.

Armistice.

1921

Psychiatric treatment with Kenneth Richmond.

Red Army wins Russian Civil War.

1922

Leaves Berkhamsted; enters Balliol College, Oxford University.

Mussolini gains power in Italy.

1923

Visits Dublin.

French occupy Ruhr.

1924

Visits Ruhr. Courts Gwen Howell.

Dawes Plan.

1925

Babbling April published. Briefly joins Communist Party. Meets Vivien Dayrell-Browning. BA in History. Joins and leaves tobacco firm. Works as private tutor. Joins Nottingham Journal.

Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Hindenburg elected German President. Locarno Treaty.

1926

Becomes Roman Catholic. Joins The Times.

General Strike.

1927

Marries Vivien.

Lindbergh flies Atlantic.

1928

Visits Lewes.

Kellogg (anti-war) Pact.

1929

The Man Within successful. Resigns from The Times. Mediterranean cruise.

Labour Ministry in UK Wall Street Crash.

1930

The Name of Action.

D. H. Lawrence dies.

1931

Rumour at Nightfall.

Economic slump develops.

1932

Stamboul Train: large sales.

F. D. Roosevelt becomes President of USA.

1933

Visits Norway and Sweden.

Hitler now Chancellor.

1934

It’s a Battlefield. In Paris. Travels to Baltic states.

Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.

1935

England Made Me; The Bear Fell Free; The Basement Room. Travels through Liberia with Barbara Greene.

Russian ‘show trials’. Baldwin becomes Premier. Italy invades Abyssinia.

1936

Journey without Maps; A Gun for Sale.

Hitler reoccupies Rhineland. Spanish Civil War (until 1939).

1937

Literary editor of Night and Day.

Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister.

1938

Brighton Rock. Visits Mexico and France. Shirley Temple lawsuit.

Hitler seizes Austria. Munich agreement.

1939

The Lawless Roads; The Confidential Agent. Flies in bomber. Liaison with Dorothy Glover develops.

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Poland invaded. Second World War commences.

1940

The Power and the Glory: large sales, wins Hawthornden Prize. Literary editor of Spectator. Works for Ministry of Information. In ARP during Blitz.

Churchill becomes Premier. Dunkirk evacuation. Battle of Britain.

1941

Joins SIS; agent in Sierra Leone.

Nazis invade USSR.

1942

British Dramatists.

Battle of El Alamein.

1943

The Ministry of Fear. Works for Kim Philby.

Battle of Stalingrad ends. Fall of Mussolini. Italy surrenders.

1944

Leaves SIS; works at propaganda centre.

D-Day.

1945

Managing director of Eyre & Spottiswoode (until 1948).

Atomic bombs dropped. Second World War ends.

1946

The Little Train.

UNO assembles.

1947

Nineteen Stories. Becomes lover of Mrs Walston.

Transistor invented. GATT established.

1948

The Heart of the Matter (best-seller); Why Do I Write?. The Fallen Idol (film). To Belgium, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Capri.

Israel founded. NHS begins. Berlin blockaded.

1949

Success of The Third Man (film). To Italy and Africa.

Communists rule China.

1950

‘The Third Man’ and ‘The Fallen Idol’) The Little Fire Engine. In Malaya.

Korean War starts. Chinese take Pyongyang.

1951

The Lost Childhood; The End of the Affair. In Malaya and French Indo-China. Meets Jocelyn Rickards.

Colombo Plan. Festival of Britain.

1952

The Little Horse Bus. Receives Catholic Literary Award. Tours Vietnam; on bombing raid.

Uprisings in Kenya (until 1956). Hydrogen bomb tested.

1953

The Living Room; The Little Steamroller. Essais Catholiques. Visits Kenya.

Korean War ends. Death of Stalin. Mt Everest climbed.

1954

Twenty-One Stories. Visits Vietnam and Haiti.

French defeated in Indo-China.

1955

Loser Takes All; The Quiet American. Meets Ho Chi Minh. Liaison with Anita Björk begins.

Vietnam War (until 1973). Churchill resigns. Eden becomes Prime Minister.

1956

Visits Poland.

Hungarian uprising. Egypt invaded.

1957

Visits China and Cuba.

USSR launches Sputnik.

1958

The Potting Shed; Our Man in Havana. Director, Bodley Head (until 1968).

Verwoerd becomes Premier of South Africa.

1959

The Complaisant Lover. Visits Congo.

Castro defeats Batista.

1960

Visits Tahiti.

Sharpeville massacre. Kennedy elected President.

1961

A Burnt-Out Case; In Search of a Character. Liaison with Yvonne Cloetta develops. In Moscow; pneumonia.

Gagarin orbits earth. Bay of Pigs invasion.

1962

Introductions to Three Novels.

Cuban missile crisis.

1963

A Sense of Reality. To East Germany. In Jamaica. Revisits Haiti and Cuba.

Traitor Philby defects. Kennedy assassinated.

1964

Carving a Statue. Visits Goa. Meets Castro in Cuba.

Wilson becomes Prime Minister.

1965

Financial setback: investments lost by ‘tax expert’.

Churchill dies. US Marines in Vietnam.

1966

The Comedians. Moves to Antibes. Becomes Companion of Honour. Revisits Cuba.

Verwoerd assassinated. Labour wins UK election.

1967

May We Borrow Your Husband? Visits Israel.

Six-Day War.

1968

In Paraguay.

USSR invades Czechoslovakia.

1969

Collected Essays; Travels with My Aunt. In Czechoslovakia In Hamburg for Shakespeare Prize.

Unrest in Northern Ireland. Armstrong and Aldrin walk on moon.

1971

A Sort of Life. Meets Allende in Chile. Dorothy Glover dies.

Indo-Pakistan War. Bangladesh founded.

1972

Collected Storks; The Pleasure-Dome.

Growing unrest in Northern Ireland.

1973

The Honorary Consul.

Arab-Israeli War. Coup in Chile: Allende dies.

1974

Lord Rochester’s Monkey. Says he is ‘not a Catholic’.

IRA bombs in London.

1975

Edits An Impossible Woman. The Return of A. J. Raffles.

North Vietnamese army enters Saigon.

1976

Befriended by General Torrijos.

Mao Zedong dies.

1977

Visits Washington.

Panama Treaty signed.

1978

The Human Factor (best-seller). Catherine Walston dies. Greene apparently ‘a Catholic atheist’.

Martial law in Nicaragua.

1979

Operation for intestinal cancer.

Thatcher becomes Prime Minister.

1980

Dr Fischer of Geneva; Ways of Escape. In Panama. Dos Passos Prize.

Iran-Iraq War. Reagan elected US President.

1981

The Great Jowett. Jerusalem Prize.

Coup in Grenada.

1982

Monsignor Quixote; J’Accuse.

Falklands War.

1983

‘Yes and No’ and ‘For Whom the Bell Chimes’.

US troops invade Grenada.

1984

Getting to Know the General.

Mrs Gandhi killed.

1985

The Tenth Man. In Panama.

Gorbachev heads USSR; Cold War dwindles.

1986

Appointed member of the Order of Merit.

Chernobyl disaster.

1986–8

Visits Philby in Moscow.

US Iran-Contra scandal.

1987

In Nicaragua and Panama. Meets Noriega.

1988

The Captain and the Enemy. Moscow doctorate.

Panama crisis.

1989

Yours, Etc.. In Ireland. Collapses; needs transfusions.

Marxist dictatorships overthrown in Eastern Europe. Beijing revolt crushed.

1990

The Last Word; Reflections.

Mandela freed from jail.

1991

Dies at Vevey in Switzerland.

USSR defunct: CIS formed.