In Mexico City once, he visited both a monastery and a brothel, a fairly regular pairing, as this brilliant new biography from Canadian academic Richard Greene (no relation) dryly informs us. Canadian academic Richard Greene, has penned a new biography about the life of modern classics writer Graham Greene (pictured)Greene’s love affairs started as a young student at Oxford University. One day he saw her lying on the sand, her skirt pulled up showing ‘a long length of naked thigh. Despite Graham’s innumerable affairs, Vivien, whose mother had warned her ‘sex was hell and childbirth would probably kill her’, called herself Mrs Graham Greene until she died in 2003, aged 99. Pictured: Graham with Yvonne CloettaHe loved drink and opium, and was addicted to danger and adventure as well as to beautiful women, who tended to return the feeling.

Source: Daily Mail October 08, 2020 21:14 UTC