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Graham Greene in 1948, sitting on a fence at Thriplow
Farm, the Walstons' working estate in Cambridgeshire.
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October 2, 2004 marked the centennial
of one of the twentieth century's most remarkable literary
figures - Graham Greene (October 2, 1904-April 3, 1991). To
celebrate the event, Georgetown University Library held a
one-day symposium about the novelist on September 24. In conjunction
with the opening in its Special Collections of an exhibition
of selected items from their extensive Greene holdings, including
rare first editions; the autograph manuscripts of The End
of the Affair and The Heart of the Matter; and his 1938 Mexican
travel diary which resulted in the novel, The Power and the
Glory. The exhibition, which is in the Gunlocke Room of Lauinger
Library through November, also has on display letters to Greene
from the notorious British spy Kim Philby and from his close
friend, author Evelyn Waugh. |
Greene's Journey Without Maps.
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1936. First American edition
in original dust jacket.
| The symposium featured Norman Sherry, Greene's
biographer, who had just completed the third and final volume
of The Life of Graham Greene, a work 27 years in the making;
novelist Shirley Hazzard, author of the 2003 National Book
Award winner, The Great Fire, and the highly acclaimed Greene
on Capri; Mark Bosco, S.J., author of Graham Greene's Catholic
Imagination; noted English sailor, Michael Richey, who had
known Greene since 1939; British broadcaster Oliver Watson,
whose mother had a relationship with Greene; and moderator
John Pfordresher, Georgetown Professor of English and a frequent
lecturer on Greene. A screening of the rarely seen Greene
film Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or the Bomb Party, was
also held at the Embassy of Switzerland on September 22. |
Panel moderator John Pfordresher (standing); seated
from left to right: panelists Oliver Walston, Shirley Hazzard
and Michael Richey.
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Greene biographer Norman Sherry
The Library would like to thank Joe (C'49) and Jeannine Jeffs,
Peter (C'60) and Ann Tanous, Nicholas Scheetz C'74, the Embassy
of Switzerland, and Viking Penguin publishers for sponsoring various
portions of the symposium.
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