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GRAHAM GREENE

Graham Greene was a British author and playwright. He was born in 1904 at Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire and died in 1991. Educated at Oxford he became a journalist on The Times newspaper and during the Second World War served in the Foreign Office. A religious maniac he was obsessed with morality - which features heavily in his books - and while he was the film critic for the magazine 'Night and Day' was responsible for the magazine's demise after he libelled Twentieth Century Fox, accusing them of 'procuring Shirley Temple for immoral purposes', and they successfully sued the magazine.
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