British · 1904–1991
Graham Greene wrote novels that examined faith, betrayal, and moral compromise across the globe's seedier corners. "The Power and the Glory" followed a whisky priest in anticlerical Mexico; "The Heart of the Matter" trapped a colonial policeman between duty, love, and damnation. The British author divided his work into "entertainments" and serious novels, though both probed the same questions of sin and grace. Greene never won the Nobel Prize despite decades of speculation, but his influence on twentieth-century fiction is undeniable.