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Graham Greene: Norman Sherry
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Cover Story: After 27 years, Greene's shadow reaches the end of his life; Norman Sherry has spent almost three decades on an all-consuming struggle: to write the definitive biography of the enigmatic Graham Greene. The attempt nearly killed him. Now, on the eve of the publication of the final volume, he talks exclusively to Andrew Gumbel about his attempts to achieve the impossible.(Features)
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Greene received numerous honours from around the world, and published two volumes of autobiography, A SORT OF LIFE (1971), WAYS OF ESCAPE (1980), and the story of his friendship with Panamanian dictator General Omar Torrijos. - Greene died in Vevey, Switzerland, on April 3, 1991. In the service the priest declared, "My faith tells me that he is now with God, or on the way there." Two days before his death Greene signed a note that gave his approval to Norman Sherry to complete an authorized biography. The first part of the book appeared in 1989.
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October 2004 saw the publication of the third and final volume of The Life of Graham Greene by Norman Sherry, Greene's official biographer. The writing of this biography created a story in itself in that Sherry followed in Greene's footsteps, even coming down with diseases that Greene had come down with in the same place. Sherry's work reveals that Greene continued to submit reports to British intelligence until the end of his life. This has led scholars and Greene's reading public to entertain the provocative question, "Was Greene a novelist who was ... a spy, or was his lifelong literary career the perfect cover?"
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His official biographer, Norman Sherry, published the third, final volume of The Life of Graham Greene in October of 2004. The writing of this biography was in itself a story, Sherry followed Greene's footsteps, suffering the diseases that Greene suffered and in the same place. The biography reveals that Greene continued reporting to British intelligence until his life's end, leading literary scholars and readers to entertain the existentially-provocative question: Was Graham Greene a novelist who ... was a spy, or was he a spy whose life-long novelist's career was the perfect cover?
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In the end, Sherry's biography is not hijacked by either Catherine Walston or his obsession with Greene's sexual prowess and alleged sadomasochistic tendencies, but by the CIA. According to Sherry, Greene didn't hesitate to work for the Western intelligence services, including the CIA. Sherry relies on an unidentified former CIA senior officer, who asserts "Greene was doing a short-term operational assignment [in Vietnam] because Trevor [British consul in Hanoi] was gone...." But why does Sherry trust such a questionable source to substantiate his theory that Greene remained an active spy?
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