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Graham Greene: Affair Catherine
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After graduation, Greene unsuccessfully took up journalism, first in the city of Nottingham (recurring in his novels as the epitome of mean provincial life), and then as a sub-editor on The Times. While in Nottingham he started corresponding with Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a Roman Catholic convert who had written him to correct him on a point of Catholic doctrine. Greene converted to Catholicism in 1926 (described in A Sort of Life) and was baptised in February the same year [1], they married in 1927, and had two children, Lucy (b. 1933) and Francis (b. 1936; d. 1987). In 1948, Greene abandoned Vivien for Catherine Walston, yet remained married to her.
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The hidden years of Greene's life are traced through the breakdown of his marriage, when he became involved in various turbulent affairs. In l940 Kim Philby recruited him as a spy, and in a unique interview Philby talks about their time together in the Secret Service. By l959 Greene retreated to a leper colony in the then Belgian Congo. Archive is shown of Greene in the Congo with Dr Michel Lechat, who inspired him to write A Burnt Out Case. Other contributors include his wife Vivien Greene, Michael Meyer, Auberon Waugh and Jocelyn Rickards.
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Aside from his exotic trips, Greene ... achieved notoriety in his personal life. Greene's financial success as an author enabled him to live very comfortably in London, Antibes, and Capri. He associated with many famous figures of his time: T.S. Eliot, Herbert Read, Evelyn Waugh, Alexander Korda, Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, among others. He had many extra-marital affairs, and confessed he was "a bad husband and a fickle lover", although he never revealed his affairs in his two autobiographies. He separated from his wife in 1948 but they never divorced.
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