The three volumes of The Life of Graham Greene will remain the standard work on Greene for decades to come.

At the heart of the story lies a remarkable series of letters Greene wrote to his wife, Vivien, for whose sake he became a Catholic. They show us an unknown, younger Greene, impassioned and romantic.

Based on unparalleled access to letters, diaries, and Greene himself, this book gives us the writer at the height of his fame, in the company of such literary luminaries as T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Ian Fleming, and Ernest Hemingway.

Sherry himself enters the story in 1974, eventually becoming Greene's sanctioned biographer, and he comments throughout about his experience finishing this monumental work, such as his arguments with competing biographer Michael Sheldon.

The first volume of this engrossing biography was the winner of an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Biographical Study as well as a New York Times Notable Book for 1990.

Professor Sherry establishes how well Conrad knew the East and how the original material he garnered there was supplemented from other sources; he also shows what Conrad made of his experiences, thus revealing clearly what the artist's own ...

"An astonishingly thorough yet readable story, hard-nosed yet sympathetic...." - Margaret Atwood (1995)

This edition offers new insights into Conrad's masterpiece.

In this book the author had two aims in view.