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Graham Greene first hit the local West Australian music scene as a professional guitarist in 1982, and averaged 300 live shows or sessions annually for a decade before finally turning to seriously developing his own instrumental music. [more]
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In 1910, Charles Greene succeeded Dr Fry as headmaster; Graham attended the school. Bullied and profoundly depressed as a boarder, he attempted suicide several times, some, he claimed, by Russian roulette; Michael Shelden's biography discredits that. In 1921, at age 17, he was psychoanalysed for six months in London, afterwards returning to school as a day boy; school friends included Claud Cockburn and Peter Quennell.
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Around 1924, at the age of 20, Graham Greene fell in love for the first time. The object of his affections was Gwen Howell, the nursery governess of the Greene family at the time when they were on summer holiday. Ms. Howell was promised to another.
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Steadily, Greene produced a succession of works that received both praise and crtiticism. He was considered for the Nobel Prize but failed to become a candidate. Still, many other honors were bestowed upon him, including a 1966 accolade from Queen Elizabeth as a Companion of Honor, and the Order of Merit, a much higher honor, in 1986.
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Synopsis: A Graham Greene novel was the basic source for the British psychological melodrama Across the Bridge. Rod Steiger plays Carl Schaffner, a prominent financier who has absconded with company funds. A genius at improvisation, he plans to elude the authorRead More
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Greene's left-wing opinions brought him to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Secret service agents were particularly concerned about Greene's support of governments that resisted US domination in Latin America.
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