"settlements of smaller size than villages. In the 12th century the surname was taken from England to Scotland by Sir William de Graham, who founded Clan Graham. Variant spellings of the forename are ""Grahame"" and ""Graeme"". The forename ""Graham"" is considered to be an English and Scottish given name. Its origin as a surname has led to its occasional use as a female given name, as for example in the case of Graham Cockburn, a daughter of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn. Graham (given name) Graham () is a masculine given name in the English language. According to some sources, it"
"Graham C. Greene Graham Carleton Greene, CBE, (10 July 1936 – 10 October 2016) was a British publisher who was managing director of Jonathan Cape from 1962 to 1990, and the nephew of the novelist Graham Greene. He was chairman of the British Museum. Graham was born in Berlin to Hugh Carleton Greene (who was The Daily Telegraph's correspondent) and Helga Guinness. Most of his childhood was spent in the United Kingdom, with his education taking place at Eton College and University College, Oxford. After a period with the Guinness Mahon family bank in London and New York City, Graham"
"Raymond Greene Charles Raymond Greene (17 April 1901 – 6 December 1982) was a Doctor of Medicine and a mountaineer, and older brother of the novelist Graham Greene and the broadcaster and BBC executive Hugh Greene. He joined the 1933 Everest expedition as senior doctor, chief intellect, and a competent mountaineer of gigantic physique. Raymond Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. He qualified as a doctor in 1927. In 1931 he was part of the team which climbed Kamet (at the time, the highest mountain to have been climbed), and in 1933 he was the senior doctor on the fourth"
"Alexander, a stepdaughter named Charlotte and a stepson. Graham C. Greene Graham Carleton Greene, CBE, (10 July 1936 – 10 October 2016) was a British publisher who was managing director of Jonathan Cape from 1962 to 1990, and the nephew of the novelist Graham Greene. He was chairman of the British Museum. Graham was born in Berlin to Hugh Carleton Greene (who was The Daily Telegraph's correspondent) and Helga Guinness. Most of his childhood was spent in the United Kingdom, with his education taking place at Eton College and University College, Oxford. After a period with the Guinness Mahon family"
"Lewis Patrick Greene Lewis Patrick Greene (1891-1971), who usually wrote under the name L. Patrick Greene, was an English writer of adventure stories. Greene was born in England. He spent several years in Rhodesia working as a civil servant, before a back injury caused him to be deemed medically unfit for service and discharged. By 1913, Greene had emigrated to the US and became an American citizen, settling in Boston. In 1918, Greene began to write fiction based on his experiences for the pulp magazines. Initially, his main American market was ""Adventure"" magazine. For ""Adventure"", Greene created his most famous"
"Winston Graham Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall. Winston Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947. He also wrote many other novels, including thrillers and historical novels. Graham was born in Victoria Park, Manchester, on 30 June 1908. As a child, Winston contracted pneumonia, and on medical advice was educated at a local day school rather than Manchester Grammar School which his"
"director of the Greene King Brewery, established by his great-grandfather, Benjamin Greene, in 1799. He also once bested his famous brother Graham in a writing contest to parody the novelist's writing style in the ""New Statesman"". Greene was knighted in 1964. He was married four times: to Helga Guinness, Elaine Shaplen, Tatjana Sais and Sarah Grahame. He had two sons by each of the first two marriages. He died in Westminster, London, of cancer, aged 76. In 2008 Greene was played by Hugh Bonneville in the BBC drama """". This focused on Greene's conflict with Whitehouse (played by Julie Walters)"
"Norman Sherry Norman Sherry FRSL (6 July 1925 – 19 October 2016) was an English born American novelist, biographer, and educator who was most well known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene. He was professor of English literature at Lancaster University. During World War Two, he served in Burma. Sherry was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He also wrote on Joseph Conrad, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Jane Austen. His ""Life of Graham Greene"" was praised by David Lodge for being ""a remarkable and heroic"
"A Sort of Life A Sort of Life is the first volume of autobiography by British novelist Graham Greene, first published in 1971. This volume covers Greene's early life, from mundane childhood in Surrey, through to school and university and on to his early working life as a sub editor at The Times and his years as a struggling novelist. His memoirs have been criticized for being oddly impersonal and for brushing over his marriage and his conversion to Catholicism, especially as his faith was to become a powerful motif in many of his novels. Despite these omissions he deals"
"frankly with the personal demons he faced in his teens, including an account of several suicide attempts, the resulting psychoanalysis his father arranged for him and his brief fascination with Russian roulette. A Sort of Life A Sort of Life is the first volume of autobiography by British novelist Graham Greene, first published in 1971. This volume covers Greene's early life, from mundane childhood in Surrey, through to school and university and on to his early working life as a sub editor at The Times and his years as a struggling novelist. His memoirs have been criticized for being oddly"
"Vivien Greene Vivien Greene (née Dayrell-Browning) (1 August 1904 – 19 August 2003) was the world's foremost dolls' house expert and the leading authority on period English doll's houses. She was also wife and widow of the distinguished novelist Graham Greene. Vivien Dayrell-Browning was born in Rhodesia. As a child she spent her pocket-money collecting dolls' house furniture. She had a difficult childhood: her father had an affair and her mother left him, requiring Vivien at the age of fifteen to write him a letter ending their relationship. She published her first book ""The Little Wings"", a collection of poetry"
"they married on 15 October 1927 at St Mary's Church, Hampstead, North London. Greene's first published novel was ""The Man Within"" (1929). Favourable reception emboldened him to quit his sub-editor job at ""The Times"" and work as a full-time novelist. The next two books, ""The Name of Action"" (1930) and ""Rumour at Nightfall"" (1932), were unsuccessful; and he later disowned them. His first true success was ""Stamboul Train"" (1932) which was taken on by the Book Society and adapted as the film ""Orient Express"", in 1934. He supplemented his novelist's income with freelance journalism, book and film reviews for ""The"
"Simon R. Green Simon Richard Green (born 25 August 1955) is a British science fiction and fantasy author. Green was born in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. He holds a degree in modern English and American literature from the University of Leicester. He began his writing career in 1973, sold his first story ""Manslayer"" in 1976, and published his first full-length work, ""Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds"" in 1979. Green began his rise to success in 1988 when he sold seven novels and in 1989 when he received a commission to write the bestselling novelization of the Kevin Costner film """","
"retained the novel's British setting and bleak ending. Five of Graham's other books have been filmed, including: Winston Graham Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall. Winston Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947. He also wrote many other novels, including thrillers and historical novels. Graham was born in Victoria Park, Manchester, on 30 June 1908. As a child, Winston contracted pneumonia, and"
"inventing, going bankrupt three times and being jailed once, before dying in poverty. William Edward Green was born on 7 September 1855, in Bristol. He studied at the Queen Elizabeth's Hospital school. In 1871 he was apprenticed to the Bristol photographer Marcus Guttenberg, but later successfully went to court to be freed early from the indentures of his seven-year apprenticeship. He married the Swiss Helena Friese (born Victoria Mariana Helena Friese) on 24 March 1874, and in a remarkable move for the era, decided to add her maiden name to his surname. In 1877 he set up his own studio"
"England Made Me (novel) England Made Me or The Shipwrecked is an early novel by Graham Greene. It was first published in 1935, and was republished as ""The Shipwrecked"" in 1953. It is set in Stockholm (which Greene visited in 1933 to prepare for writing the novel) and concerns the travails of ne'er-do-well Anthony Farrant who finds himself working as a bodyguard to a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. In typical Greene fashion, the seedy antihero wrestles with his conscience as murky moral dilemmas begin to trouble even his disreputable soul. Anthony, in his"
"England Made Me (novel) England Made Me or The Shipwrecked is an early novel by Graham Greene. It was first published in 1935, and was republished as ""The Shipwrecked"" in 1953. It is set in Stockholm (which Greene visited in 1933 to prepare for writing the novel) and concerns the travails of ne'er-do-well Anthony Farrant who finds himself working as a bodyguard to a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. In typical Greene fashion, the seedy antihero wrestles with his conscience as murky moral dilemmas begin to trouble even his disreputable soul. Anthony, in his"
"The Name of Action The Name of Action is Graham Greene's second novel, published in 1930. The book was badly received by critics, and suffered poor sales. Greene later repudiated the book (along with his third novel ""Rumour at Nightfall"") and it has remained out of print ever since. The title of the book is derived from the famous ""To be, or not to be"" speech from William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". <poem>Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith"
"who helped to establish the Naval Intelligence Department prior to the Second World War The author Graham Greene used to come to Harston House to spend his summers with Sir William (his uncle). The garden at Harston House provided the setting for his 1963 short story ""Under the Garden"". According to Graham Greene's description of his childhood: ""It was at Harston I found quite suddenly I could read — the book was ""Dixon Brett, Detective"". I didn't want anyone to know of my discovery, so I read only in secret, in a remote attic, but my mother must have spotted"
"The writer Graham Greene was a sub-editor on ""The Nottingham"" Journal before joining ""The Times""; he then launched his career as a novelist. J. M. Barrie worked at the ""Nottingham Journal"" from 1883 to 1884 at three guineas a week, hand-writing daily leaders and Monday columns under the pseudonym Hippomenes, along with whimsical Thursday essays attributed to A Modern Peripatetic. A colleague described him as ""a craftsman to his finger tips"". The impressions he gained from this period took tangible form in his novel of provincial life, ""When a Man's Single"", which first appeared as a serial in the ""British"
"a car in a game of poker. James Green (author) James ""Jim"" Green (born 3 December 1944 in Coventry, is a British writer and broadcaster who turned to writing as a full-time profession after a 25-year career in teaching. He has had over 40 titles published in various genres, from educational text books to travel guides to crime novels. His first foray into crime novels was called ""Bad Catholics"" (2010 Luath), the first part of a trilogy chronicling the exploits of reformed gangster Jimmy Costello. James has since moved to Accent Press to write a five book series on the"
"at 589 Baltic Street in Brooklyn with William working at ""cleaning & repairing furniture."" William died as ""William Adams"" in Brooklyn, NY on 5 December 1895. Parthenia Adams died in Brooklyn on 5 November 1882. More research is needed on the fate of their children. William Green (former slave) William Green was a slave in the nineteenth century. He wrote a narrative of his life as a slave, and his subsequent escape from his master. His narrative was published in 1853. There is no known record of his date of birth. Green was born in Oxford Neck, Maryland. He was"
"Robert Greene (dramatist) Robert Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, ""Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance"", widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare. Robert Greene was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer known for his negative critiques of his colleagues. He is said to have been born in Norwich. He attended Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1580, and an M.A. in 1583 before moving to London, where he arguably became the first professional author in England. Greene was prolific"
"Sébastien Japrisot Sébastien Japrisot (4 July 1931 – 4 March 2003) was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of ""Jean-Baptiste Rossi"", his real name. Japrisot has been nicknamed ""the Graham Greene of France"". Famous in the Francophony, he is little known in the English-speaking world, though a number of his novels have been translated into English and have been made into films. Sébastien Japrisot made his mark as an author at seventeen, when his novel ""Les Mal Partis"" was published in France and United States. He followed this with outstanding translations"
"freedom in society. In 1986, he was awarded Britain's Order of Merit. The Graham Greene International Festival is an annual four-day event of conference papers, informal talks, question and answer sessions, films, dramatised readings, music, creative writing workshops and social events. It is organised by the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, and takes place in the writer's home town of Berkhamsted (about 35 miles northwest of London), on dates as close as possible to the anniversary of his birth (2 October). Its purpose is to promote interest in and study of the works of Graham Greene. He is the subject of"
"as Chris or Cris Green. His exact date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 16 July 1820 as Christopher Green to William and Mary Green at Upwell, close to Wisbech and the Isle of Ely in the Fenlands of the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire borders. There is nothing in later records to disagree with 1820 being his year of birth. His 1874 obituary writer, styling himself as 'The Sportsman', tells of him learning to ride at a very early age 'whipped in to his father' who hunted a pack of harriers across the 'enormous Fen drains'. He soon earned"
"and published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography. According to Richardson, 'The chief problem in compiling a biography of Robert Greene is the name. ""Robert"" must have been almost the most popular Elizabethan Christian name and ""Greene"" is no unusual surname'. Newcomb states that Robert Greene: was probably the Robert Greene, son of Robert Greene, baptized on 11 July 1558 at St George's, Tombland, Norwich. Greene later described himself as from Norwich on his title-pages, and the year is appropriate for the Robert Greene who matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, as a sizar on 26 November 1575."
"the impression that the author lived a very interesting and varied life but not a happy one. Ways of Escape Ways of Escape is ostensibly the second volume of autobiography by British novelist Graham Greene, first published in 1980, but it is not a conventional autobiography, concentrating more on the author's work than his life and often blurring the line between the two. ""Ways of Escape"" is the autobiography of a writer rather than a man. Instead of recounting the details of his life he gives the histories of his novels. How they came to be written, what he had"
"notebook with a black fountain pen and would write approximately 500 words. Once he reached 500 he would put his pen away and be done for the day. Korda described this as Graham's daily penance—once he finished he put the notebook away for the rest of the day. Throughout his life, Greene travelled far from England, to what he called the world's wild and remote places. The travels led to his being recruited into MI6 by his sister, Elisabeth, who worked for the agency. Accordingly, he was posted to Sierra Leone during the Second World War. Kim Philby, who would"
"""A liar, a cretin, a stool-pigeon... unbalanced, sadistic, perverted... a perfect ignoramus... lying to his heart's content... the shame of proud and noble England... a spy... a drug addict... a torturer."" (""The last epithet has always a little puzzled me,"" Greene confessed.) The novel was rapidly adapted as a 1967 feature film of the same name, with the screenplay written by Graham Greene. It was directed and produced by Peter Glenville, and starred Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, and Peter Ustinov. The Comedians (novel) The Comedians (1966) is a novel by Graham Greene. Set in Haiti under the rule"
"use of his left hand and leg. Robert Greene (American author) Robert Greene (born May 14, 1959) is an American author known for his books on strategy, power and seduction. He has written five international bestsellers: ""The 48 Laws of Power"", ""The Art of Seduction"", ""The 33 Strategies of War"", ""The 50th Law"" (with rapper 50 Cent) and ""Mastery"". The younger son of Jewish parents, Greene grew up in Los Angeles and attended University of California, Berkeley before finishing his degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.A. in classical studies. Before becoming an author, Greene estimates that he"
"as a pilot, allegedly because of a poor grasp of mechanical aspects of aircraft operation. On his return to SA at the end of World War 1, while contemplating a life in the merchant navy, he settled on a career in journalism with the Cape Argus. Although Green never married, he maintained a close and well documented platonic relationship with Luise (“Lulu”) Yates-Benyon, the mother of his biographer-to-be, John Yates-Benyon. On his death in 1972 from metastasized melanoma, he was survived by two sisters, Rita and Rosemary. The latter was a successful UK author of adolescent literature, for example Pyewacket"
"Sudden James Green aka Sudden is a fictional character created by an English author Oliver Strange in the early 1930s as the hero of a series, originally published by George Newnes Books Ltd, set in the American Wild West era. Oliver Strange died in 1952, and the series was revived by Frederick H. Christian in the 1960s. Christian classified the books as ""Piccadilly westerns"", that is books written by English authors, simply drawing on the conventions the genre, with no first hand experience of America. The Sudden books are among the earliest and best-loved of the type. Sudden is portrayed"